Continuous Quality Improvement in Medical Education: Applying Industrial Models to Medical Education

Comparison of Graduate Medical Education in Iran with WFME International Guidelines: Quality Improvement in Postgraduate Medical Education

In 2001, following the development of International Standards in basic medical education, WFME appointed an international Task Force for development of International Guidelines for Postgraduate Specialist Training. Reports of this Task Force were published in September 2001. These Guidelines has been structured in 9 areas and 37 sub-areas. The areas of these guidelines are mission & outcomes, t...

Continuous medical education in ultrasonography.

Approaches of Iranian Medical Universities to Quality Management in Education

Introduction: Universities of medical sciences in Iran have recently employed different quality management approaches according to their own reasoning. They include accreditation, total quality management (TQM), suggestion system, ISO 9000, and productivity. This study aimed to identify chosen approaches in Iranian Medical universities and clarify the reasons of selection as well as practical m...

Quality of postgraduate medical education.

BACKGROUND In recent years, huge efforts to improve quality control process and efficiency of healthcare were put in advancing health systems in Russia. There are measurable and noteworthy achievements, there are unresolved issues.It's impossible to manage the process of improving the quality and efficiency of care without high-quality training of respective troops. However, in the last decade ...

Accreditation the Education Development Centers of Medical-Sciences Universities: Another Step toward Quality Improvement in Education

BACKGROUND In order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (UMS), and because of the key role of education development centers (EDCs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance. METHOD A group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by EDC of Ministry of Health and Medical education. The te...