The Effectiveness of Teaching Foresight Concepts and Scientific Authority to Students in Small Groups: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Capacity-Building Capacity-Placing for Acquiring Scientific Authority

Students' empowerment for future challenges, needs with effective educational methods is one of the important tasks of health higher education for scientific authority. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the teaching of concepts of foresight and scientific authority in small groups. This is a descriptive-analytic study. 26 students of  brilliant talent were selected and participated in three small groups workshop on Foresight and Scientific authority. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire containing the educational concepts of the workshop before and after the holding. Descriptive and analytic analysis was performed using SPSS21 and descriptive statistics and Kruskal-Wallis statistical test at a significant level of 0.05 The average age of the students was 22.92, about one-half of the students were in college and most (38.5%) at the undergraduate level. The comparison of the mean scores before and after the workshop showed that the work of the workshop in increasing the students' awareness of Future literacy and scientific authority have been meaningful. 95.4% of students were interested in the content and 90.9% stated that they were applicable to the subject and the appropriateness of the method and 72.7% agreed with the requirement for the workshop to be presented to other students The teaching of the concepts of Foresight and scientific authority in small groups is an effective step in empowering students in the field of Foresight and scientific authority in line with the goals of the program of development and innovation in medical education.