فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: In recent years, to achieve the fundamental goal of educating meta‑competentfuture medical doctors, varieties of educational methods have been proposed in all medical schools.In Shiraz Medical School, we implemented an extracurricular theme focusing mostly on medicaleducation’s psychosocial aspect. This study aims to discuss the implementation and evaluation ofthis extracurricular theme.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study is a descriptive‑analytic one; we included allundergraduate medical students in basic sciences courses who started medical education in 2014and 2015 in Shiraz Medical School. The evaluation tools were questionnaires designed in differentformats and handed out to medical students before and after the workshops. Data were analyzedby paired sample t‑test in SPSS Software Version 23.RESULTS: Students’ satisfaction was more than 60% in all items of all workshops, except in someitems of studying and learning methods and research methods workshops, which were lower than60%. Students’ knowledge about all aspects of communication skills, stress management, criticalthinking, studying and learning methods, and research methods workshops improved significantlyafter participation in these workshops.CONCLUSIONS: Medical students can become meta‑competent future medical doctors. They canreach all of the learning outcomes described in the three‑circle model of learning. This goal cannotbe achieved by implementing a medical curriculum which only contains medical literature. Someextracurricular issues based on students’ and societies’ requirements must be added to the maincurriculum. The whole curriculum must be evaluated continuously, and required changes must beapplied.