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标题：Determining the Quality of Management and Structural Elements of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department in Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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作者：Fereshteh Farzianpour 1* , Kazem Mohammad 2 , Hossein Malekafzali 2 , Saharnaz Nejat
期刊名称：Journal of Service Science and Management
印刷版ISSN：1940-9893
电子版ISSN：1940-9907
出版年度：2014
卷号：07
期号：06
页码：430-439
DOI：10.4236/jssm.2014.76040
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Introduction: The system of quality in higher education requires a systematic evaluation of all of its different aspects. Different patterns of evaluation reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the programs and facilitate the informed decisions. Objectives: The objectives of the present research are as follows: 1) Determining the quality of the structural elements of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department; 2) Determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to improve the quality of activities in the department under research. Design: In this research, the efficiency of the department was studied based on the internal self-evaluation. For this purpose, pre-determined indices with relative modifications were used. This study was conducted with the collaboration of the head of the department, faculty members, all of the students (residents, Ph.D. and M.S. students) and the graduates. Through a pilot study the initial rates of the areas under research were first determined by the opinion poll carried out among all the faculty members, then through proper tests, unrelated data were identified and omitted and the final rates were extracted. Results: The mean of the areas under study was 59.8% of which the minimum (37%) was related to the area of aims and objectives and the maximum (72.6%) related to area of the graduates. Conclusions: The graduate domain is one of the key areas under study in the internal evaluation of this department which received a good score.
关键词：Quality of Management; Evaluation; Academic Department; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Tehran University of Medical Sciences