Academic advising in Iranian medical schools

To measure the status of academic advising in medical schools, the present study was designed at the Secretariat for Education and Student Affairs of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. A benchmarking tool, to assess the quality of different aspects of that field was devised. Every school was asked to introduce a representative who would complete a questionnaire, which was designed to collect schools' information. All the divisions were visited by one of the project s members to revise and approve the data. Then data retrieval -was performed, verified and analyzed at the project s office. There are 45 public and private medical schools nationwide, which were stratified based on their individual scores for academic advising