摘要：AbstractProblem statement: Clinical education is a key component to learning in the health professions. Promoting clinical education in nursing and midwifery fields requires continuous assessment of the current situations in clinical education and identifying effective factors from views of nursing - midwifery students and their clinical teachers. Purpose: To determine Nursing - Midwifery students and teachers’ views of effective factors in clinical educationMethods: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study,that carried out on 338 nursing-midwifery students and 66 teachers in Guilan University of Medical Sciences in Iran who were selected by census sampling method .The data were gathered by a questionnaire consisted of two parts:teachers and students demographic data and specific questions about clinical education in four domains include: clinical teacher's characters,student's characters,clinical environment and educational curriculum,. All of data were analyzed by SPSS 16.Findings: The mean age of teachers was43/4±6/7yrs, and the mean age of students was22.5±2/5 years .The results showed that except clinical teacher's characters domain, there was significant difference between teachers and students attitude scores in three domains in clinical education. In deed students had positive attitude in three domains rather their teachers.Conclusion: With regard the importance of these four domains from views of students and teachers, it is recommended to administrators and program designer of clinical education, to consider these domains in clinical curriculum planning in order to promote clinical education.
