Considering social accountability in rehabilitation therapy school
As you know, there is increasing attention in social accountability concept for medical and other health professional schools. Despite the uniqueness of the concept of social accountability, it has different definitions in various fields. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described socia...
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| description | As you know, there is increasing attention in
social accountability concept for medical
and other health professional schools. Despite the
uniqueness of the concept of social accountability,
it has different definitions in various fields. The
World Health Organization (WHO) has described
social accountability generally as follows: “the
obligation to direct education, research and
service activities toward addressing the priority
health concerns of community, region, or
nation”(1). Applied to health professional schools,
the idea of social accountability recognizes it’s
prospective for transforming community by
acting throughout the educational, research
and healthcare delivery, on a mixture of social
determinants of health factors and for helping
to make a proficient and equitable health system.
One of the health professional schools in
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences is the
School of Rehabilitation Therapy. This school is
committed to lead and stimulate positive changes
that improve quality of lives through rehabilitation
education, research and practice. As part of this
commitment, the mission of this school is to teach
occupational therapists, physiotherapists and
physiotherapy scientists who contribute to wellbeing
and welfare of the community. This school
is recognized for excellent social accountability.
In a qualitative study, we developed the
indicators for assessing the concept of social
accountability in this school based on the extensive
literature review and expert opinions. Finally,
57 indicators were determined for assessing the
social accountability and used for assessment of
social accountability in this school (2).
The results showed that considering the
healthcare needs of the community for education
and research, provision of interdisciplinary
education for students, addition of the idea of
social accountability in the accreditation system,
teaching professionalism to students before the
clinical courses, and cooperation with other
stakeholders (including academic health centers,
physician communities, and other relevant
paramedical schools) were reported as some of the
strengths of this school. Some of the weaknesses
of this school were lack of continuous evaluation
programs for precise analysis of the current
needs of the society and lack of correspondence
between some of the elective training programs
with the accountability approach. What’s more,
the willingness of the community to participate
in the health programs, lifestyle changes and
change in the public approval for services in
educational fields are some of the existing trends
in this school.
It seems necessary that social accountability
concept of rehabilitation therapy schools should
be further taken into consideration as a means
of improving the outcomes of rehabilitation
education, research and services.
In conclusion, all health professional schools
should contribute to the needs of society by
educating their students well in this field. Through
accomplishment of these aims, these schools can
play the maximum effective role in the health of
the community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7dfc0cf63be4d80a98e1488583c5d542022-12-21T23:16:42ZengShiraz University of Medical SciencesJournal of Advances in Medical Education and Professionalism2322-22202322-35612017-07-01539394Considering social accountability in rehabilitation therapy schoolHAJAR SHIEH0MITRA AMINI1FATEMEH MIR2PARISA NABEIEI3JAVAD KOJURI4Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranClinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranClinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranClinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranClinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranAs you know, there is increasing attention in social accountability concept for medical and other health professional schools. Despite the uniqueness of the concept of social accountability, it has different definitions in various fields. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described social accountability generally as follows: “the obligation to direct education, research and service activities toward addressing the priority health concerns of community, region, or nation”(1). Applied to health professional schools, the idea of social accountability recognizes it’s prospective for transforming community by acting throughout the educational, research and healthcare delivery, on a mixture of social determinants of health factors and for helping to make a proficient and equitable health system. One of the health professional schools in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences is the School of Rehabilitation Therapy. This school is committed to lead and stimulate positive changes that improve quality of lives through rehabilitation education, research and practice. As part of this commitment, the mission of this school is to teach occupational therapists, physiotherapists and physiotherapy scientists who contribute to wellbeing and welfare of the community. This school is recognized for excellent social accountability. In a qualitative study, we developed the indicators for assessing the concept of social accountability in this school based on the extensive literature review and expert opinions. Finally, 57 indicators were determined for assessing the social accountability and used for assessment of social accountability in this school (2). The results showed that considering the healthcare needs of the community for education and research, provision of interdisciplinary education for students, addition of the idea of social accountability in the accreditation system, teaching professionalism to students before the clinical courses, and cooperation with other stakeholders (including academic health centers, physician communities, and other relevant paramedical schools) were reported as some of the strengths of this school. Some of the weaknesses of this school were lack of continuous evaluation programs for precise analysis of the current needs of the society and lack of correspondence between some of the elective training programs with the accountability approach. What’s more, the willingness of the community to participate in the health programs, lifestyle changes and change in the public approval for services in educational fields are some of the existing trends in this school. It seems necessary that social accountability concept of rehabilitation therapy schools should be further taken into consideration as a means of improving the outcomes of rehabilitation education, research and services. In conclusion, all health professional schools should contribute to the needs of society by educating their students well in this field. Through accomplishment of these aims, these schools can play the maximum effective role in the health of the community.http://jamp.sums.ac.ir/index.php/JAMP/article/view/775- |
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