Abstract

Objectives: 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.
Material &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 1402. 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 (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 were 130 and 141 (134±1), 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.