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ArticleBMC medical education2024

A blueprint for success: lessons learned from developing the official guide to Iranian undergraduate medical education accreditation.

Mahdi Aghabagheri, Babak Sabet, Abtin Heidarzadeh, Ebrahim Kalantar, Ali Norouzi, Maryam Alizadeh

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Article in BMC medical education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mahdi AghabagheriPhilosophy of Science Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Babak SabetDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abtin HeidarzadehMedical Education Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran.
Ebrahim KalantarSmart University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali NorouziSchool of Medicine, Education Development Center (EDC) and Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Maryam AlizadehDepartment of Medical Education, School of Medicine and Health Professions Education Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran. alizade.aban@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We are excited to contribute our thoughts and insights to the discussion initiated by Gandomkar et al. in their article on the accreditation system in Iran (Gandomkar et al., BMC Med Educ 23:379, 2023). As individuals who have been directly involved in the process of meta-accreditation and possess a comprehensive understanding of the various stages of Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) accreditation in Iran, we would like to highlight additional points that were identified through a rigorous hermeneutic phenomenology process proposed by Gadamer (Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2013) and offer a complementary point of view to the previous work. By sharing our insights, we hope to contribute to the ongoing discourse surrounding UME accreditation.

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Education, Medical, UndergraduateAccreditationEducation, Medical, ContinuingHumansIranSchools, MedicalAccreditationOfficial guideWFME

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PMID38454450
PMCPMC10918960

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