Research in Medical Education

 Introduction : we considered the quality improvement of university as an institue that train, transfer and approve the espisialized manpower. Internal evaluation planning was done in order to appropirate objects, opreational policies. This study was aimed to assess the internal evaluation specialized educational groups in Qazvin university of medical sciences .

 Methods: We desiged a check list with 44 questions to determine quality internal evaluation, and used descriptive-cross sectional study for data collection and analysis. We distributed these among the faculty members, finally we analyzed the date that gathered from 20 faculty members.

 Results: 70% of participants had appropirate knowledge and attitude, 65% of them anounced to appropirate lead the plan, 45% of them approved condition of education, 75% of them anonnced unappropirate for having educational expert in groups. more than 60% of them anounced that the compartment of the faculty members, students, employees, team manager)were unsuitable, In this field less than 40% of them attended, comply in educational objects, more than 55% of them anounced satisfactory in determine of evaluation fields and acceptable status of the fields. More than 70% of them anounced unsuitable community with educational development. 75% of them anounced unsatisfactory for communicating with graduats.

Conclusion: According to findings of this research, General difficulities were performing internal evaluation consisist of: 1) There were not sufficient participation of stakeholders such as determining and rivising objectives and idexeses of evaluation areas. 2) There was not education expert in groups. 3) There was not suitable communication within groups, EDC and them with their graduates. Therefore , we can solve the problems and perform this study in other educational groups that have residency programs for improving the quality of educational programs.