Optimal model for improving the quality of continuing education content of general practitioners in the northwest of the country (A phenomenological study)

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Bahram Jalilzadehamin ¹ , Farhad Nejhad Haji Ali Irani ² , Usef Beygzadeh ³ , Nadr Bohlooli ⁴

1 - PhD Student, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, Bonab Branch, Bonab, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, Bonab Branch, Bonab, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, Bonab Branch, Bonab, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, Bonab Branch, Bonab, Iran

Received: 2021-04-28 Accepted : 2021-05-23 Published : 2021-12-22

Keywords: Quality of Education, continuing education, medical education,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to provide a favorable model for improving the quality of continuing education content of general practitioners in the northwest of the country in 1399. The present study was a combination of qualitative and quantitative in terms of applied purpose and phenomenological type with purposeful sampling until saturation and the statistical population included 20 professors who were the director of continuing medical education at the university of each province or in the field. Continuing medical education had more than 5 years of teaching experience and sampling was done purposefully and critically based on semi-structured in-depth interviews. In order to develop a desirable model for improving the quality of the content of continuing medical education, the synthesis research method has been used and a questionnaire has been used to validate it. The results showed that continuing medical education based on the content element, in the form of content flexibility, logical communication, appropriate content design, use of self-study educational content, use of content related to blended learning (Blended learningd), was developed