Assessing educational gaps in Iran’s nursing education system: a mixed-method approach to the infectious diseases curriculum

Table 1 The results of category and sub category and sub-sub category

Category	Sub-category	Sub-sub category
The need participants to pay attention to the educational content of infectious diseases	Obstacles in the educational program of infectious diseases	Obstacles related to the development of educational content
		Obstacles related to the time allocated to the course unit
		A large volume of infectious curriculum
	The importance of the infectious curriculum	Applicability of the curriculum
	The importance of the infectious curriculum	The prevalence of infectious diseases
The need participants to pay attention to the internship of infectious diseases.	The importance of internship	The importance of internship in learning
	The importance of internship	Applicability of internship
	Internship barriers	The gap between theory and clinical practice
	Internship barriers	Lack of experienced clinical professor
The need participants to pay attention to the educational strategy	Advantages and Disadvantages strategy Teacher oriented	Disadvantages of using a teacher-centered strategy
	Advantages and Disadvantages strategy Teacher oriented	Advantages of a teacher-centered strategy
	Advantages and Disadvantages strategy Student oriented	Advantages of using a student-centered strategy
	Advantages and Disadvantages strategy Student oriented	Disadvantages of using a student-centered strategy

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