Abstract
Introduction: Curriculums are a plan or plan that oversees the most important event of education, i.e. learning or reconstructing experiences. Therefore, checking and knowing the quality of curricula is the most effective measure to guide and implement these programs. In order to improve the coherence of the curricula, they should be periodically evaluated and, if necessary, the necessary changes should be applied to them. This study aims to determine the quality of traditional medicine curriculum in the field of medicine.
Methods: 228 students were selected based on stratified random sampling. To collect information, a researcher-made questionnaire on the quality of the traditional medicine curriculum was used in accordance with the elements of Tyler's curriculum, and this questionnaire included two sections on personal characteristics and questions related to the quality of the traditional medicine curriculum from the point of view of medical students. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha method was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. After checking the data, it was entered in SPSS version 24.
Results: The average status of goals, content and content organization, teaching and learning strategies, and evaluation methods of traditional medicine curriculum of medical field from the point of view of medical students were calculated as 3.33, 3.34, 3.34, 3.45 and 3.21, respectively.
Conclusion: Educational planners can benefit from the findings of this research in revising the curriculum of the general medicine course, considering the position and necessity of learning traditional medicine in the medical profession, and train traditional medicine learners in the field of medicine.
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