Wisdom Based University; a Strategic goal for the hexagonal model of medical education excellence

The formulation of transformation programs in the medical sciences education and the experience of their implementation and evaluation showed that without a strategy based on the fundamental values which mentioned in the policies and programs of the scientific and educational system, and the translation of these values into the programs, attaining the goals will not be possible. The hexagonal model of university excellence was designed to explain this path. In this article, we intend to show that universities, and especially universities in the field of medical sciences, in order to achieve excellence, must institutionalize fundamental moral and spiritual values in their policies, programs, and operations, and this will not be possible unless keeping the Wisdom Based University as their strategic goal. We show the place of moral and spiritual values in the model and we argue that the design and implementation of strategies that extend the umbrella of moral and spiritual values to rationality, convergence, mission orientation, achieving scientific authority and social accountability can lead the medical education system towards a Wisdom Based University and achieve its ultimate aims.