Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: Educational evaluation is a formal activity to determine effectiveness or usefulness of program, process, goal and curriculum. Internal evaluation is a process that deals with gathering Information and Judging about educational activity improvement. This study has been done to evaluate the educational groups of Health School of Yasouj University of medical sciences in 2009.

  Method: in this study, public health , environment health and nutrition departments of health school of Yasouj university of medical sciences were involved , in this regard, educational goals and mission, management and organizing educational groups, faculty members, advisory, educational programs, laboratories, workshops, facilities , educational references, alumni, IT site were evaluated by questionnaire and check list-based Ten-fold assessment internal process.

  Results: based on results, condition of educational groups desirable performance in different domains have been reported as follow: goals and mission based (28.6%), management and organizing (35.7%) faculty members educational performance (29%) doing research by faculty members (71.4%) educational groups performance (28.6%), advisory performance (35.7%) , educational programs (42.9%), condition of laboratory (64%), workshops (87%), atmosphere and facilities of educational groups (27%), atmosphere and facilities of iT site (25%). Also, about 75% of graduates were accepted at higher level.

  Conclusion: Findings showed that inspite of existing deficiencies such as inappropriate atmosphere, facilities, educational sources, number of faculty members and staffs all of the educational groups try to develop educational programs.