academic advising in iranian medical schools

background and purpose:to measure the status of academic advising in medical schools, the present study was designed at the secretariat for education and student affairs of the ministry of health and medical education.methods: a benchmarking tool, to assess the quality of different aspects of that field was devised. every school was asked to introduce a representative who would complete a questionnaire, which was designed to collect schools’ information.results: all the divisions were visited by one of the project’s members to revise and approve the data. then data retrieval was performed, verified and analyzed at the project’s office.conclusion: there are 45 public and private medical schools nationwide, which were stratified based on their individual scores for academic advising.