Education, Complaints, and Accountability

Social Accountability of Medical Education Curriculum: Barriers and Implications

Introduction: Social accountability of curriculum is considered as the director of all medical education activities towards the training of medical practitioners who could be able to contribute to health needs of a population. This study tried to investigate some barriers to medical education social accountability and summarize the experimental based proposals and recommendations in internation...

Social accountability in optometric education

Medical education needs to be socially responsible, socially responsive and accountable according to Global consensus for social accountability of medical schools document. Social responsibility is to be aware of the needs of the society. Social responsiveness is aligning the education, research and service arenas with the needs of the community. Social accountability is aiming for the better h...

Nursing education: quality, innovation and accountability.

Convergence of sciences for social accountability in education: An experience

The inter-disciplinary approach in education includes the integration of educational capacities and competencies of different disciplines for a specific purpose or creating a new product with appropriate methodological techniques to improve knowledge and acquire competencies. In fact, the starting point of convergence of sciences is turning to an interdisciplinary approach. Convergence of scien...

Demonstrating social accountability in medical education.

The author considers the University of Toronto's Health, illness and the Community course for undergraduate medical students, described in this issue by Wasylenki and associates (see pages 379 to 383). Social accountability in medical education demands a community orientation and hence an emphasis on outreach. Medical schools should expand their clinical service to the community, provide commun...