Futures Driven Model of Scientific Excellency, Case Study: Gilan University of Medical Sciences
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Purpose

Competitive inclusiveness in higher education in the national and international space and the evaluation of the performance of universities based on their success in achieving output has become one of the mainstream of higher education in the country. The financial bottlenecks resulting from sanctions and the difficulty of selling oil and gas have led the government to consider a national and international benchmarking of universities and their financing, which could initiate the competitiveness process in universities and a reduction in dependency on revenues from the oil and rentier economy. In such a atmosphere, how to achieve scientific excellency at the national and international levels has become one of the main questions for policy makers. The Ministry of Health and Medical Education, in the form of "packages for the transformation of medical education" encourages medical universities to move from the status quo to the desired situation that has been anticipated in the packages of transformation. Acquiring scientific authority as one of the components of the packages is part of the mission of the medical universities of the country. Accordingly, the main Purposeof this paper is to answer the question of how scientific excellency can be achieved? The origin of scientific excellency in Iran, national and international experiences in the subject has been investigated to review the literature. We also designed a process and then a model to test the course. Guilan University of Medical Sciences was selected as a case study for the research.

Method

The approach used in this paper is from Future Studies with insisting on “Participatory Learning and Action” method. It means that different stakeholders include: the Strategic Council members, Managers, faculty members, students, alumni and non-academic staff has been concerned in different parts of the process. The main methods are documentary studies, comparative studies, expert’s panel, brainstorming, online questionnaire (semi-Delphi) and modeling. National and international experiences were examined with documentary and comparative studies. Online questionnaire method is used to participate different stakeholders. Also expert’s panel and brainstorming is used to draw futures images, drivers, priorities, and to verify conceptual model of scientific excellency.
 

Findings

The main achievement of this paper is priority-setting for achieving the scientific authority in Gilan medical University with the participation of all stakeholders.

Conclusion

the study concludes that prority- setting for achieving excellency and scientific authority require the participation of all stakeholders and shaping the collective will and transforming it to discourse towards the desired future.

Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of Iran Futures Studies, Volume:4 Issue: 1, 2019
Pages:
171 to 205
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