Abstract

 
Introduction: Curriculum is one of the most important components of any educational system, and continuous monitoring of its implementation can be of great help in improving education.
Materials & Methods:  The current research was a comparative study and the required information was collected from the websites of 30 laboratory science groups from September to February 2023. Cluster sampling has been done and it has been tried to consider the geographical distribution and classification of universities. The aim was to check the degree of conformity of the type and arrangement of the units offered in the universities under review.
Results: The average number of faculty members in each group was 6.8 ± 4.3 and different specializations were reported. Except for one case (7 semesters (in the rest of the cases the length of the academic period was 8 semesters or four year was planned. The minimum and maximum units offered during the academic period (mean: 134±1) were 130 and 141, respectively, and no special order was seen in the division of specialized and general units during the course. Most of the cases were based on the model in the regulations for they used to present the internship unit, but in general, a lot of variation was seen in terms of the pattern (unit-time) for this unit.
Conclusion: Despite the provision of flexibility in the implementation of all national educational programs (curriculum), the coherence and uniformity of its implementation should not be neglected because it can cause the goals of that program to be unfulfilled.
 
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank all of our colleagues in medical universities who participated in this study and for their support.
 
Availability of data and materials: The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
 
Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of the results of this article.
 
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Ethical Approval and consent to participate:This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ahvaz School of Medical Sciences under code IR.AJUMS.REC.1403.449Written informed consent was obtained from the participants to take part in the study. The participants were informed that their participation in the study was voluntary. The participants’ data were analyzed and reported anonymously and confidentially. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
 
Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies the public commercial or not for profit sectors.

Author contributions: Conceptualization: methodology, writing- original draft, writing review and editing data: Alireza Ekrami. Data collection and formal analysis: Armin Nourbakhsh. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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