School of Medicine-University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Group on Social Accountability, Association of Medical Education in Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR), Baghdad, Iraq.
WHO Iraq Consultant for Public Health and Health Professional Education, WHO Office, Baghdad, Iraq.
Educ Health (Abingdon). 2022 Jan-Apr;35(1):9-15. doi: 10.4103/efh.EfH_186_19.
The mandate of medical schools is to enrich the health system through education, research, and service to satisfy the health needs of the societies they serve. The social accountability (SA) movement aims to intensify the medical school's mission. Although the context of every school is unique, one of the increasingly significant roles of medical education is to develop the indicators that promote SA. The aim of this study is to define the determinants of SA in Iraq using AlKindy College of Medicine/University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq as a case study.
This is a qualitative research using open-ended questions through an online mode; data were analyzed using the content analysis technique.
Different themes related to the roles of medical schools, stakeholders, medical schools' mission, curriculum content, research characteristics, service characteristics, enhancers of SA, and accreditation role were identified. The themes are meant to characterize a socially accountable medical school within the context of Iraq.
The study needs to be replicated in different medical schools to successfully build the national determinants of SA.
医学院校的任务是通过教育、研究和服务来丰富医疗体系,以满足其服务的社会的健康需求。社会责任(SA)运动旨在加强医学院的使命。尽管每个学校的背景都是独特的,但医学教育的一个越来越重要的角色是制定促进 SA 的指标。本研究旨在使用伊拉克巴格达的 AlKindy 医学院/大学作为案例研究,定义伊拉克的 SA 决定因素。
这是一项使用开放式问题的定性研究,通过在线模式进行;使用内容分析技术对数据进行分析。
确定了与医学院的角色、利益相关者、医学院使命、课程内容、研究特征、服务特征、SA 增强因素和认证作用相关的不同主题。这些主题旨在在伊拉克的背景下描述一个对社会负责的医学院。
需要在不同的医学院中复制该研究,以成功建立 SA 的国家决定因素。