A Model for Improving the Quality of Education in Pharmacy Case Study: (Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Health Services)

The aim of this research, is identifying pharmacy quality education elements of improvement and also presenting a model correspondent with local conditions.

This is a Mix method study that its l population is 140 graduated students of Tehran Medical University, two questionnaires which the first one was Responded-made is specialized for dimensions and components of improving the quality of education and the appropriateness of model and that second one specialized for model correspondent data collection which was complete by 20 university professors. This data was analyzed confirmatory and PLS software.

Regarding the quality and effective factors on improving the quality of pharmacy education, the 9 main factors of the goals and missions of the faculty, the quality of the curriculum, space and educational facilities, teaching and learning process, assessment, behavioral skills of professors, skills Professional faculty members, students, application of educational standards, and influence of teaching methods in pharmacy have the most impact on improving the quality of pharmacy education.

The results showed that the effect of teaching methods with total load (0.86), behavioral skills of faculty members with total load (0.83) had been effective the application of educational standards with a factor of 0.65 The least impact has on improving the quality of pharmacy education. Therefore, the use of modern teaching methods such as flipped classroom, clinical teaching method ... and in the behavioral skills of professors based on appropriate treatment, mutual respect, self-esteem and ... toward other factors are more influential than other factors.