TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of social accountability for medical schools in Iraq
T2 - A qualitative case study
AU - Abdalla, Mohamed Elhassan
AU - Al Kurtas, Mohammed Al
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Education for Health | Published by Wolters Kluwer-Medknow.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Background: 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. Methods: This is a qualitative research using open-ended questions through an online mode; data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Results: 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. Discussion: The study needs to be replicated in different medical schools to successfully build the national determinants of SA.
AB - Background: 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. Methods: This is a qualitative research using open-ended questions through an online mode; data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Results: 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. Discussion: The study needs to be replicated in different medical schools to successfully build the national determinants of SA.
KW - Determinants
KW - Iraq
KW - social accountability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139867337&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4103/efh.EfH_186_19
DO - 10.4103/efh.EfH_186_19
M3 - Article
C2 - 36367023
AN - SCOPUS:85139867337
SN - 1357-6283
VL - 35
SP - 9
EP - 15
JO - Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice
JF - Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice
IS - 1
ER -