فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is considered to be one of the most importantas well as inexpensive resources for sustaining professional development in medical teaching. The aimof this project was to improve the quality of education in our medical college by using student feedbackas a tool for faculty development. However, it is also important to obtain teachers’ perceptions on SET.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an educational research study conducted on a singlepractical/tutorial batch of fourth‑semester students in pathology chosen by random selection.Feedback regarding teaching was collected for all the teachers in the department of pathologywhere the students had to rate the teachers on a scale of 1–5. Teachers’ perceptions on students’feedback were gathered with the help of another structured prevalidated questionnaire containing15 questions/items. The feedback data were obtained using a 5‑point Likert scale. The scoresobtained from the students’ evaluation data and the teachers’ perception data on the different itemswere analyzed using SPSS software version 20.0.RESULTS: Significant findings from students’ feedback were that 80% of teachers had a medianscore of >4 in explicit curriculum, indicating that most of the students agreed that the teachers teachtheir core subject well. However, only 20% of teachers had a median score >4 in implicit curriculum.Teachers, in their feedback, fully agreed that students should be involved in the evaluation of teachersand that student feedback ensures the overall faculty development in the institute and can be usedas a tool for quality assurance in medical education.CONCLUSION: Students’ feedback is one of the best methods of evaluation of teachers to ensurethe overall faculty development and quality assurance in medical education. Thus, a regular feedbackmechanism should be in place for the entire institution.