Showing 5 results for Health System
Fatemeh Hadizadeh, Shahram Yazdani, Masoud Ferdosi, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Arash Rashidian, Arash Hadadgar, Alireza Monajemi, Shahram Tofighi, Ali Mohammad Sabzghabaee, Peyman Adibi,
Volume 10, Issue 5 (2-2011)
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Introduction: Health system management is regarded a chief duty and skill of health care providers. However, medical students do not receive enough training for it. The first national Olympiad for students of medical sciences was designed to motivate students for acquiring managerial skills, improve reasoning and problem solving skills, and also propagate team working in students in an excitingly competitive and joyful atmosphere. Methods: Designing a model for the olympiad included four phases: building up a framework for designing the exam questions, determining topics of the exam, setting the exam questions and administering it, and finally judging. In summer 2009 the first national olympiad for the students of medical sciences on reasoning & decision making in health system management was held in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The first two days of the five-day-long open source olympiad were spent on individual competition. The following three days were devoted to group competitions. Six groups of three Students competed in this part. Results: After 19 months, with the help of a large group of university teachers with related specialties, a framework for the selection of the exam questions was built up. The themes of the Olympiad were decided to be Health policy and health economics. The topic for group competition phase was current problems in implementation of the family physician project in Iran. In the individual competition phase, the students were to answer 194 questions and in the group phase they were asked 3 open-ended questions. 106 students studying different medical fields nationwide participated in the event 71 students (66.98%) were girls. most participants were students of medicine (33 students) and others were students of nursing (26 students), health management (20 students), and other fields of study (27 students). Conclusion: Considering the significance of medical students' awareness of heath system management and the importance of improving reasoning and decision making abilities in them, holding such examinations could facilitate the achievement of these objectives.
Marzieh Javadi, Asadollah Shams, Maryam Yaghoobi,
Volume 11, Issue 9 (3-2012)
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Introduction: Educational courses specially clerkship should be improve an active learning and students' personal and professional development and in addition must be tailored to the needs of society. In each educational system, it is necessary to change educational programs in order to meet social needs and reflect the latest scientific achievements. This study aimed to compare two educational programs for first clerkship course of MSc health services management students.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study was undertaken on 10 MSc health services management students who were passing first clerkship course during 2010-2011. They were divided in two groups. We compared the effect of implementing a routine method (which was based on approved curriculum) in the first group versus system-integrated education (which was according to the hospital accreditation standards) in second group. Results were measured in three following areas: students' satisfaction, students' participation in clerkship fields and their linkage, student acquaintance with updated and current concepts in managerial levels of health system. Data was collected using 18-point questionnaire. Data were analyzed using independent T-test.
Results: Mean score of all areas in the second group was significantly higher than the first group. Satisfaction mean score was 2.48±0.58 in first group and 3.28±0.39 in second group (p=0.02). Students participation in clerkship fields and their linkage was 2.32±0.54 in first group and 3.85±0.54 in second group (p=0.01). Student acquaintance with updated and current concepts was 2.62±0.74 in first group and 2.95±0.54 in second group (p=0.04).
Conclusion: Attention to new managerial concepts of health system can enrich the clerkships and be effective on students' motivation. Educational groups can direct training into need–based approaches with considering health system requirements as well as basic approved curriculum. Therefore, they can provide more effective and appropriate training programs.
Ahmad Shirjang, Mahasti Alizadeh, Fathieh Mortazavi, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Abolfazl Jeddi,
Volume 12, Issue 10 (1-2013)
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Introduction: Public health experts play an important role in implementation of health centers’ programs. The comments and suggestions of graduate employees of this field about the level of functionality of the curriculum to professional requirements needed by graduates could help determine the shortcomings. This study aimed to investigate the level of coordination of curriculum and syllabus of public health BS with job requirements and health systems’ expectations of this field from the viewpoints of graduates employed in district health centers. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 95 graduates of public health employed in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The sample was selected using multistage sampling. Data collection instruments was a valid and reliable researcher-made questionnaire, including questions about applicability of educational contents of basic, specialty, and major courses of this discipline in their job responsibilities. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The results showed that the application of courses and lessons in public health discipline was in an average level (40%-59.9%) and basic courses had the lowermost application in job activities (lower than 20%). The existing curriculum had different application level based on the job definition. It was most applicable for “disease control staff”, while to be very low applicable for “network development experts”. The content of 71.79% of courses was represented just in cognitive area. In conclusion, the graduates of this discipline had a relative and average satisfaction with contents of their academic experience. Conclusion: The study showed that the educational content of public health discipline is not fully coordinated with job requirements of this field. Therefore it is highly recommended to modify this curriculum in order to improve its applicability for future employees.
Zohreh Vafadar, Zohreh Vanaki, Abbas Ebadi,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (5-2014)
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Introduction: Extensive changes in the health field have compelled many organizations of health sciences education to seek for the most effective educational approaches. Meanwhile, interprofessional education as a novel and efficient approach has recieved attention internationally. We conducted this study for introducing interprofessional education with a focus on its backgrounds and formation in health sciences.
Methods: This integrative review study was performed during years 2012-2013 using an integrated search in PubMed, CINHAL, Ovid, and Science Direct databases. Moreover, google search engine was also used for searching in various information sources such as validated journals and conference proceedings and reports of educational organizations and assemblies, using main key words such as interprofessional education and interprofessional learning, limiting the results from 1995 to 2013 and mainly in English. We obtained more than 2000 titles including original articles, reports, web pages, letters to editor, and books. Having titles and abstracts assessed, 120 documents that were more appropriate and directly related to the study question were selected and analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Then the text contents were retrieved and final results were categorized and managed by MAXQDA software.
Results: Two themes were obtained indicating the formation of interprofessional education in the health system. The challenges theme containing 4 categories: dynamic changes in all aspects of human society, poor quality of care services, staffing crisis, and failures of uniproffessional education. The second theme named constructive strategies containing 4 categories: improvement of interprofessional interactions, promotion of interprofessional collaborations, patient centered team care, and changing in professional socialization process of health sciences students.
Conclusion: Interprofessional education with focus on interprofessional interactions and promotion in professional socialization process of health sciences students provides necessary competency and ability for developing interprofessional collaborations and comprehensive patient-centered team care among graduates for addressing challenges in health systems.
Zohreh Vafadar, Zohreh Vanaki, Abbas Ebadi,
Volume 14, Issue 11 (2-2015)
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Introduction: Today, interprofessional collaboration and team care as well as interprofessional education are inevitable necessities for addressing healthcare needs of societies. Due to a contradiction between the need to provide team care at health centers and the lack of prioritization and implementation of team-based and interprofessional approaches to education in the health system, this study was conducted to explain the barriers to implementation of team care and interprofessional education in Iran from the viewpoints of educational managers of the health system.
Methods: This qualitative content analysis study with a conventional approach was carried out from August 2013 to Jul 2014. The data were collected through semi–structured individual interviews with 16 educational managers and researchers in universities of medical sciences and medical education development centers who were selected by purposive sampling. All interviews were transcribed word by word and then analyzed using MAXQD software.
Results:Two categories and eight subcategories were identified explaining the barriers to implementation of team care and interprofessional education from educational managers’ viewpoints. The two main categories included cultural-attitudinal barriers and structural-functional barriers. The first category consisted of subcategories such as weakness of systemic thinking, individualistic culture, profession-orientedness, physicians’ predominance, and role models. The second category included subcategories of management structure, stunted growth of educational management, inadequate understanding and weak evidence.
Conclusion:Existent barriers and their influence on each other have prevented the implementation of team care and interprofessional education by creating a vicious cycle. Since the cultural and attitudinal changes occur over a long period, it is necessary to move towards changing the culture and attitudes and implementing team care and interprofessional education through restructuring the educational management as well as implementation of interprofessional education pilot programs and developing research and evidence accordingly.