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Institutional Accreditation in Medical Education: The Experience of the Survey Visit Teams Publisher



Yarmohammadian M1 ; Khorsani E2 ; Norouzinia R1, 3 ; Mirzaei S4 ; Ehsanpour S5 ; Yamani N5 ; Rezaei F4, 5
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  1. 1. Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. School of Paramedical Science, Alborz University of Medical Science, Karaj, Iran
  4. 4. Department of Health in Emergency and Disaster, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
  5. 5. Medical Education Department, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Source: Journal of Education and Health Promotion Published:2020


Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This study discussed about challenges and opportunities of institutional accreditation in Iranian medical universities. The lesson learned of the first round of the accreditation would direct initiatives and solutions for future accreditation. METHODOLOGY: This research is a qualitative content analysis research that studied the experience of the survey visit teams. Semistructured interviews with a purposive sampling approach were done to reach data saturation. Constant comparative method was used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The emergent themes were incompatible scheduling with accreditation workload, accreditation sustainability, the weakness of the survey instrument, advantage of the survey instrument, the quality of evaluators' survey, the opportunity of progress for universities, accreditation perspective, defendable cost opportunity, perceived injustice, and the leading strategies. In this study, the relationship between categories and themes was shown with a systematic approach. CONCLUSION: In medical education systems, it is necessary to continue the research and development studies using the findings in each accreditation period to achieve the prospect of international accreditation. © 2020 Journal of Education and Health Promotion.
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