Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: Continuous education is the most important experimental education to improve staffs

  Knowledge as they acquire enough knowledge while on duty whenever education with obvious goals caused this process. This study was conducted to assess continuous education program for laboratory staffs of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences.

  Methods: In this cross - sectional study, all of the personnels of medical diagnostic laboratories under the supervision of Bushehr University of Medical sciences, participated in continuous education program during 6 consecutive training course (162). The sampling method was consensus and data were collected by a two-parts questionnaire containing demographic information and the part of questions about evaluating continuous education program as well as doing pre- test and post test, then data were analysed by SPSS Software.
Results: The mean age of participants was 33.66 ± 6.88 years .( 43.2%) male, (56.8%) female and (0.6%) of them with MSc degree, (36.4%) BA,( 59.3%) Technician and (3.7%) without academic education.

  The result showed that there was significant difference between pre- test and post test (p <0.05). Also there was significant differences among participants' viewpoints, practical subjects,style of teaching workshops atmoshpere.

  Conclusion: Continuous education for laboratory staffs with workshop method can be effective and improve their knowledge. Selecting practical subjects and schedules for improving quality of Continuous education programms should be regarded.