Studying the Satisfaction of Radiology Technology Students with the Evaluation Method of Internship Units at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences in 2023

Abstract

Background: Clinical education plays a fundamental role in shaping students' basic skills and professional capabilities. Identifying problems in clinical education helps to eliminate or correct weaknesses and can improve the achievement of educational goals, train skilled individuals, and provide higher quality services. Objectives: This study was conducted to investigate the satisfaction of radiology technology students with the method of evaluating internship units at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences in 2023. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted using a census method on 62 students of the radiology technology major at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences in 2023. At the beginning of the study, a series of entry and exit criteria were set, and a demographic information checklist and a researcher-made questionnaire were used to collect information. After collecting the data, it was entered into SPSS18 and analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: In this study, the results showed that the average age of the participants was 22.18 ± 1.56 years, most of the participants were female (59.7%), 37 academic semester (37.1%), 17 - 18 (59.8%), and the age group was 22 - 24 (63%). There was also a significant relationship between gender, academic semester, GPA, and age with the method of evaluating internship units, and among the areas of student satisfaction, the highest scores were respectively supervision and evaluation 11.01 ± 3.33, educational environment 10.23 ± 3.25, behavior with students 8.06 ± 2.59, instructor performance 7.75 ± 2.57, general question 3.23 ± 1.01, and the overall satisfaction score 4.16 ± 11.49, and different subgroups had a significant relationship with each other. Conclusions: According to the results of the study, which showed that the satisfaction score of the clinical education evaluation of radiology technology students was high, planning by faculty officials is necessary and vital to maintain these conditions.