Evaluation of Dentistry Students’ Satisfaction Rate with Educational Services at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran (2015 – 16)

• Main Authors: Ebrahim Soltani, Seyed Mojtaba Amiri, Amirhossein Moradi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2018-08-01
• Series: Educational Research in Medical Sciences
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/erms.82685

Clinical teaching quality assurance is determined by continuous evaluation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of clinical dentistry students with clinical teaching in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences between 2015 and 2016. In this descriptive-analytical study, 90 students (56.7% female) with an average age of 25.17 ± 3.15 years participated. The data collection tool was a satisfaction evaluation questionnaire. To compare satisfaction levels between different parts, repeated measures test and Bonferroni post hoc test were used. SPSS version 18 software was used to analyse data. The results showed that there was a significant difference in satisfaction rate of fourth year students with teaching among sections of the faculty (P = 0.016). In general, the students satisfaction rate with the clinical departments can be evaluated as moderate. Maximum cooperation of the professors and accurate implementation of the educational curriculum can have a significant effect on increasing student satisfaction.