Medicine and Spiritual Cultivation
Year:2020 | Volume:29 | Issue:3|Papers Count:6

Background and objective: Transformation in the higher education system has been emphasized in national mega policies in order to achieve scientific hegemony. During the past years, many efforts have been made to medical education transformation policy making in Iran, such as the program of transformation and innovation in medical education. Considering the experiences gained and in order to solve the challenges that existed in the implementation of these programs, the hexagonal model of university excellence are designed. This model designed to clarify and magnify the role of university in promotion of medical education system and also emphasizes on the role of the university as the main institution of medical education. Methods and Materials: In this study, the following steps have been taken: 1. Review of scientific documents, 2. Review and analysis of Mega policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 3. Review of policy making experiences in medical education system of Iran and preparing a list of strengths and weaknesses of previous policies, 4. Forming an elite panel and classifying components and designing the model Results: In this model, the inputs and outputs of each component of medical education system including policy-making, implementation and evaluation have been extracted. The system inputs include Student, faculty members, resources, rules and regulations, data and information, and knowledge content. As well as output of this system including scientific hegemony, convergence of sciences, globalization, social accountability, the promotion of wisdom and mission-oriented universities. This article examines the components of the hexagonal model of university excellence in Iran. We hope that with the existing infrastructure in the medical education system, this model will be implemented well and provide the basis for improving the Iranian health system.

Background and objective: The term “ scientific supremacy” was first introduced by Ayatollah Khamenei and had been explained many times in meetings with academic faculties. After that, achieving this great goal was included in the vision document of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the comprehensive scientific map of the country; and various researchers defined, interpreted and explained this concept; so the definition and examples of this concept developed over time and in addition to the direct meaning of this concept the parallel concepts were formed and developed, therefore, due to the need to explain the roots of this concept over time, this study aim was analyze the discourse of scientific supremacy in Iran. Methods and Materials: This qualitative study was conducted according to Norman Fairclough critical discourse analysis method, this method focused on three categories of text, discourse action and social action. For this purpose, the contemporary discourse of Iran in the field of scientific supremacy was examined and analyzed according to the Fairclough critical discourse analysis method. Results: The findings of this study consisted of 1232 codes (simple and compound) which led to the abstraction of 40 discourse themes. Conclusion: Identifying the discourse context of scientific supremacy in the country will help to define more accurately, scientific measurement and more appropriate planning to achieve supremacy.

Background and objective: The global Covid 19 pandemic has caused the dynamic emergence of the “ corona crisis” at different educational, cultural, social, political, security, economic, legal and professional dimensions thereby leading to a novel experience in managing the social interactions and human security. In this respect, the Higher Educational system is not an exception; in the past few months, the higher educational systems in the world have changed drastically due to the Coronovirus pandemic. For this reason, the need felt to investigate the possible impact of the new situation on the educational system. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of coronavirus outbreak on the different dimensions of university managements from the perspective of academic experts. Methods and Materials: The present study was conducted in 1399 using a qualitative approach. Participants in this study were 18 experts and administrators at different universities in Tehran (including dean, dean, vice chancellor and department manager) who had management experiences. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and content analysis (thematic); method was used to analyze the interviews (coding and determining the main and secondary themes). Results: From the analysis of the interviews, four main themes of educational dimensions and activities, research dimensions and activities, social services and and governance and university management and 18 subthemes were extracted and finally the results were summarized. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that the outbreak of Covid-19 have affected different aspects of internationalization, globalization, localization, digital transformation, inequality in access to higher education, educational quality, the prevalence of virtual research, science and technology parks, research quality, research budget, university-industry relationship, local community networking, social accountability, management and leadership, upstream laws and documents, human resource management, financial resource management, crisis management and change management at universities. Therefore, the scope and quality of the impact is varied and relatively deep.

Background and objective: The overall purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of futurism in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The study adopted a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design to conduct the study. Methods and Materials: In the quantitative section, a descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 20 persons in the qualitative and 465 in the quantitative section selected from the faculty members, managers and professors at the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. According to saturation law, 10 people in the qualitative section were chosen and based on Cochran formula, 210 people were selected by stratified random sampling for the quantitative section. A researcher-made questionnaire with 56 questions was used for data collection. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis tests were used to analyze the data. Results: The face and content validity of the instrument was confirmed by experts and their combined reliability and Cronbach’ s alpha were calculated above 0. 7. Conclusion: The results showed that futurism has nine dimensions: “ responding to community needs, conceptual understanding, adaptation to change, strategic vision, decision making, research talent, empowerment, research support and organizational structure” . The highest standard coefficient (0. 873) was related to the strategic vision dimension and the lowest standard coefficient (0. 554) was related to the decision making dimension.

Background and objective: The overall purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of futurism in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The study adopted a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design to conduct the study. Methods and Materials: In the quantitative section, a descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 20 persons in the qualitative and 465 in the quantitative section selected from the faculty members, managers and professors at the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. According to saturation law, 10 people in the qualitative section were chosen and based on Cochran formula, 210 people were selected by stratified random sampling for the quantitative section. A researcher-made questionnaire with 56 questions was used for data collection. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis tests were used to analyze the data. Results: The face and content validity of the instrument was confirmed by experts and their combined reliability and Cronbach’ s alpha were calculated above 0. 7. Conclusion: The results showed that futurism has nine dimensions: “ responding to community needs, conceptual understanding, adaptation to change, strategic vision, decision making, research talent, empowerment, research support and organizational structure” . The highest standard coefficient (0. 873) was related to the strategic vision dimension and the lowest standard coefficient (0. 554) was related to the decision making dimension.

Background and objective: One of the personality components that exists in different degrees in employees and can affect the type and level of progress and success of employees is perfectionism. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between progressive perfectionism and organizational learning and organizational ethics in medical university. Methods and Materials: The present study was descriptive-survey, the statistical population included all employees of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with 2941 people, which according to Morgan table 341 people were selected by stratified random sampling as a sample. Data collection tools included questionnaires: Asadpour et al. ’ s Advanced Perfectionism (1397), Neefe Organizational Learning (2001) and Omidi Organizational Ethics (2011). To analyze the data from Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, structural equation modeling was performed using Spss21 and LISREL8. 5 software. Results: Progressive perfectionism has an average of 3. 63, and among its components, the desire for order has the highest average and the target has the lowest average. Organizational learning has an average of 3. 85, and among its components, the shared perspective has the highest average and systemic thinking has the lowest average. Organizational ethics has an average of 3. 6 and among its components, fairness and equality have the highest average and honesty and truthfulness have the lowest average. Progressive perfectionism has a positive and significant relationship with organizational learning with standard coefficient (0. 65) and with organizationalethics with standard coefficient (0. 58). Conclusion: Progressive perfectionism has an impact on organizational learning and organizational ethics of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences staff. Due to the relationship between learning and organizational ethics with the effectiveness, efficiency and improvement of the organization’ s performance, it is expected that university administrators and officials will work with scientific and coherent planning to nurture and promote the positive and progressive aspects of perfectionism in employees.