Objective: Creating a scientific and practical curriculum is the most important step in medical students’ training and planning of wards posting during the internship period has a very high impact in this creation process. The aim of this case study is to assess the opinion of medical interns of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of medical sciences, towards increasing the number of wards in hospitals.

Material and Method: In this case study, 75 medical interns expressed their views on the reform by completing a questionnaire containing 5 multiple choice questions about the importance of different wards of the internship program. Frequency of responses was calculated by direct counting.

Results: Majority of the students agreed with increasing the number of internship wards nevertheless decreasing their time. They scored the importance of wards which they did not pass during internship, as medium, low or without importance. General information about interns' hospital wards in Iran also represented.

Conclusion: In most Iranian medical schools, selectable internship wards resulted in better learning of knowledge and skills in favorite wards and in subjects, such that they are eager to continue their future study and job. Although the interns had different ideas about the ideal time length of their educational wards, they generally agreed on increasing the number of wards and the reduction in the time allocated to one-month (minor) wards.

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