Effect of Participation in the “Principles of the Morning Report Case Presentation” Workshop on Clinical Faculty Members' Performance

Background: morning reports are one the most popular clinical education in hospital setting. the first step to improve quality of this educational method is to know about current situation. the aim of this study was to study the effect of educational workshop on quality of morning report in golestan university of medical sciences. methods: in this interventional study, using census sampling 147 medical students participated. one day educational workshop held for the faculty members who were involved in morning reports. the quality of morning reports assessed by a questionnaire before and after running the workshop from the students perspectives. the data analyzed using student's t-test. results: the quality of morning report before workshop rated as 61.8% excellent and 38.2% good. the quality of morning reports after workshop rated 70.4% excellent and 29.6% good. neither before nor after group rated the quality of morning reports as weak. there was no statistical significant difference between the students' perception of quality of morning report before and after running workshop. conclusions: the quality of morning reports in the teaching hospitals were good. there was no significant statistical difference between the results before and after the workshop. since the morning report is very important part of clinical education, any attempts to improve it would be highly valuable