Introduction: Due to the close association between clinical competency and the quality of care concept, clinical competency has a special place in evaluating medical sciences students. This study was performed to investigate perceived clinical self-efficacy among students at the beginning and end of clinical education course and compare it to teachers' evaluation of students’ clinical competenc...

Introduction: Despite the fact that evaluation is the most important part of effectiveness of clinical education, evidences show the inefficiency of current evaluation methods. Common evaluation methods are restricted in subjective information and in addition to failure in evaluating students’ clinical skills precisely, they are not considered as learning instruments. Therefore, this study was ...

Introduction: Clinical education constitutes a major share of nursing education and clinical competence of instructors is a key factor in offering proper knowledge, skills and attitude to students. The diversity in competence level of instructors and absence of the same educational approaches, have led to a dependence of education on individual abilities of the instructors. As a result, evaluat...

Background and purpose: Internal evaluation is the systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to determine the benefits and disadvantages of a program and the extent to which its objectives are achieved. The aim of this study was to investigate the status of internal evaluation in clinical departments of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in two consecutive academic years...

Introduction. Continuous evaluation is necessary for improving and promoting the quality of clinical education. The purpose of this study was to determine the views of nursing and midwifery students of Gonabad University of Medical Science about the condition of clinical education. Methods. This was a cross-sectional survey in which 140 nursing and midwifery students registered as day or night...