Designing a System for Evaluating Ambulatory Medical Education in the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Abstract

Introduction: As a type of clinical education, ambulatory medicine has challenges, which underlines the evaluation of the system. This study endeavored to design a system to evaluate ambulatory medical education in the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This developmental study was conducted in two phases in the years 2019-2022. In two phases, evaluating of the status quo and designing a system for evaluating ambulatory settings was done. This way, an agenda was developed. Results: Designing an agenda for evaluating ambulatory medical education are the important results of this study. This system includes stakeholders, policymakers, and administrators. The users are the clinical professors in educational clinics, developers of the clinical education system in education development center. The end stakeholders are students of medicine, patients, and society. The system consists of several subsystems wherein several processes are running. Conclusion: According to the developed system, it is possible to formatively evaluate ambulatory setting and in addition to extracting results to identify the strong and weak points of clinical education, the strengths and weaknesses of the system can also be evaluated and improved.

Keywords

• medical education
• clinical education
• ambulatory education
• evaluation
• teaching and learning process