Faculty members attitude toward academic advising and counseling and their viewpoints about counseling duties

Advising and counseling students, a part of faculty members' duties, is a way for overcoming preventable problems and educational failure due to those problems. The aim of this study was to determine the attitude of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences toward advising and counseling students and their views about the duties of counselor faculty members. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 164 faculty members were investigated using a questionnaire. The attitude questions of this questionnaire had the validity and reliability of 0.8 and 0.67, respectively. The reliability of 0.8 was calculated for questions of counselor duties. The gathered data was analyzed by SPSS software, using t-tests and one way ANOVA. Seventy seven percent of faculty members had the experience of student counseling, 82.6% were aware of counseling duties, and 86.7% were completely agree or agree with counselor's duties. In total, 74.3% of the faculty members achieved the total score of attitude. A significant difference was observ-ed between the mean scores of the attitude based on the variables of academic rank and being aware of counselor's duties. With regard to almost positive attitude of faculty members towards counseling and advising, and their agreement with the duties approved by ministry, there is no doubt that having enough and appropriate knowledge and competency in performing counseling tasks in order to help the students is essential. Therefore, informing and educating faculty members regarding student advising and counseling are recommended

Relationship between facilities and manpower of basic sciences departments and academic achievement of medical students in Kerman

Education should be implemented based on an appropriate methodology and needs interests and scientific background of students in order to provide satisfaction and motivate students to learn and teachers to teach. To determine facilities and human resources of basic sciences of medical university and relation to learning progress of medical students of Kerman University [1998-2000,]. Through a cross- sectional study, standard questionnaires with 0.7 minimum reliability coefficient and 0.75 validity coefficient were used based on the views of managers and members of groups, facilities were compared to chosen standards. Facilities achievement of student in every course of that section was based on the average marks of that course and basic sciences exam, total average and grade given by the ministery of health, education and teaching medical sciences. The results indicated that anatomy department with 61.11 out of 100 grades had better educational facilities than other departments. While Microbiology and parasitology department with the average grade 15.20 out of 20 among total courses of that department had the best condition. The relationship between educational facilities and academic achievement of medical students based on sciences exam and inter- sectional grades average was negative and no significant difference was observed. The relationship between the number of teachers amid their scientific rank with inter- sectional and basic sciences grades was positive. According to the direct relation between the number of teachers and their scientific rank with the academic achievement of students, it is recommended to increase teachers' scientific level by implementation educational updating programs and workshops