Performanceappraisal of advisors from viewpoints of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences Students (2012)

  Background and Objectives : The student advisors who accepted responsibility of consultation of students regarding individual , socioemotional , familial and also unexpected problems, should be able to appropriate and effective proceed to promot of their biopsychosocial health.This study aimed to evaluate opinions of students in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences about performance of student advisors.  Material & Methods: In this cross sectional study 276 of medicine, nursing, midwifery and paramedicine students in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences were selected by cluster random sampling. The students opinion about performance of student advisors was collected by questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the questionnarre were assessed by content validity and test–re- test methods, respectively. Data were analysed by SPSS software and the chi-square distribution.  Results: Of students, 48.2% were between 20 to 21 years old, 86.6% were single and 77.2% female. The most favorable functional domains includes: availability according to schedule (47.1%), cognition and knowledge of student advisor from student field (43.5%), suiting time and site of consultation (41.7%) but functional domains that obtained the most of dissatisfaction includes: encouragement of students to scientific and cultural extracurricular activities, performance to required proceedings to vulnerable students, formation of group meetings to orientation of students with student advisors duties , planning related to educational states of students.   Conclusion: According to these results, although more than one/third of cases had good or excellent viewpoint to practice of student advisors but it is necessary to set strategy formulation for educational progress and finding of biospychosocial problems of students also to assess and follow up of vulnerable students .   Keywords: Student, advisor professor, Practice, Rafsanjan