Abstract

Objective: Determination of the ideal timings of lessons and breaks preferred by the students and teachers and most appropriate course hours in a day and examining the opinions about attending the lessons will be useful for increasing the education given. In addition, examining the factors which impacts the level of attention of the student during the lesson will provide more efficiently teaching about the lessons. Materials and Method: In this study, the timings of lessons and breaks of medical faculty students andteachers, most efficient time period for the lessons, compulsory attendance to the lessons, determining of the thoughts of students about lecturing method and determining of the thoughts of teachers about the attitudes of students in lessons were purposed. This research which is descriptive was performed on 44 teachers and 480 students. Data were obtained with questionnaire form about 29 questions prepared by Likert Scale which scrutinizes the ideas of students over the open ended questions that queries the descriptive characteristics of participants and efficiency and processing of theoretical courses and participation to theoretical courses. Results: The students and teachers thought that periods of theoretical and practical lessonswere enough and the lessons were more efficient in morning hours. It was seen that the students focused on lessons in a better way in the days when they had a breakfast. The students and teachers thought that the attendance check application performed by fingerprint method did not have any positive impact over the interest in the lessons and academic achievement. The students were having difficulty about focusing on the subject in the lessons which includes many slides but, the teachers thought that this situation did not affect the interest of students in subject. Conclusion: We believe that these data will provide contribution about preparing the academic programs efficiently, developing the behaviors of students about breakfast and developing the teaching methodologies.

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