Introduction: Clinical education is the most important training course for qualified physician training. Clinical education, especially ambulatory teaching, has many challenges.This study aims to determine the ambulatory teaching quality in Baqiyatallah Hospital.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Sampling was done by census method in medical students, medical assistants and professors that during the course of clinical education, there were 100 people at the Baqiyatallah Hospital in the year 2016. This study used the ACLEEM (Ambulatory Care Learning Education Environment Measure) questionnaire for data gathering. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21 software.
Results: In this study, 34 professors, 25 residents and 41 general medical students participated. The quality of ambulatory teaching was evaluated from the professors' point of view with mean score and standard deviation 21 ± 3.84, medium quality was evaluated. Residents evaluated the quality of education with mean score and standard deviation of 112.48 ± 24.52, good quality was evaluated. The general medical students assessed the educational quality of the center with mean score and standard deviation of 111.85 ± 23.66 medium quality was evaluated.
Conclusions: To improve the quality of the clinic, provision of full conditions, including management of the number of patients, easy access to scientific resources and medical records of patients are emphasized.