The study of the circumstances of medical sciences units of Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 1395-96 based on Territorial Planning of Higher Education

To improve efficiency, equitable distribution of resources , the use of regional potentialities, decentralization and preventing accumulation of opportunities, as well as purposeful development of the health higher education in different parts of the country, and learning from the developed countries’ experiences, the draft of Planning Health Higher Education According to Territorial Provisions (spatial Planning ), drawn up based on the studies conducted by the Ministry of Health, was submitted to the Supreme Council of the Cultural. Then it was decided that all the departments and units of the Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences in each Macro-District should cooperate with the relevant secretariats from 1395. it is expected that it will bring positive and effectiveness and performance results. Reviewing various articles and texts by searching websites, prestigious journals, and reports about the current status of the Islamic Azad University Medical Sciences according to the forms self-declared by university. The largest hospitals under construction and property; and number of fields in medical sciences; the highest number of the existing student; and number of faculty members and number published articles in the macro-district 10; the highest number of cities with educational facilities in the macro-district 1; the lowest numbers of fields of study in the medical sciences, existing students and proposed students admission capacities; the lowest number of faculty members working on individual contractions or those officially or contractually employed in the macro-district 3. developing proper infrastructure for carrying out coordinated plans of the progress and innovation packages in medical education, the need for planning and operating out PHHEATP as a means of local development; regional development; promoting justice; reorganizing and updating plans and procedures, while applying methods، seems inevitable.