ABSTRACT
Background: Infrastructure of increased productivity in universities requires emphasis on improving the quality of its faculty members and don't updating of peoples in their profession, according to the quality of the course of advanced teaching methods. The present paper was performed aiming at content analysis of in service training curriculum in faculties of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, and comparing it with the approved topics
Materials and methods: In the descriptive survey research, faculty members and specialists of educational sciences group were studied. Sample size was calculated as 86 subjects by Morgan table and they were chosen by systematic random sampling. Data collection was done by author's questionnaire for which the stability was verified by Cronbach alpha of 0.839. One sample t test was used to analyze the data
Results: Correspondence of in service training of advanced teaching method was desirable according to approved topics of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical branch. According to participants' view, each component of curriculum, including objectives, method, contents, and evaluation was significant and suitable. Also, the compliance of the elements of objectives, contents, method and evaluation in the curriculum of advanced teaching method were suitable and significant
Conclusion: In order to increase quality and empowerment of faculty members, the content of courses in service training should be continually adapted by planners with the approved topics