| خلاصه مقاله | Background: The main mission of medical education is to train competent and capable physicians, who qualify the required skills and knowledge for providing high-quality medical care as well as
maintaining and promoting the society’s health. The aim of this study was to describe the status of social responsiveness in community medicine department. This investigation was a plan for assessing the educational activities with the aim of promoting the health of community.
Methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Department of community medicine, Faculty of medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, in 2021,
using a questionnaire derived from the social accountability standard indices (10 domains, 25
criteria and 85 indices). The questionnaire was developed by Jalilian. In order to collect the necessary data, after interviewing and consulting with the informed and key individuals, the required documents were identified and investigated. Subsequently, the questionnaire was completed and scored. Finally, the collected data were statistically analyzed.
Results: On the whole, the research findings showed that, in terms of the social responsiveness education indices, the status of department of community medicine was at the medium level by acquiring 74 points (equivalent to 28.8%) out of maximum 255 possible points so that, among the indices of 10domains of accountable education, the highest score (41.7%) belonged to the second domain (cooperation and interaction with the health system), while the lowest one (16.7%) belonged to the tenth domain (society’s role).
Conclusion: Regarding the importance of social responsiveness indices and their relationship with the ultimate achievement of education, i.e. responsiveness learning, it is necessary to provide some
educational methods and sensitize the education and research system toward the requirements,
participation and role of the society in order to improve productivity and accountability in the
educational system and promote the status of social responsiveness in the departments. |