Identifying the components of professional development of medical education administrators among third - generation universites

in order to improve the quantitative and qualitative educational process,the third-generation medical universitie need the medical education administrators who possess the sufficient knowledge, skills and insight to manage educational process in a university However, many administrators don’t have adequate access to effective professional development to deal with the challenges of the innovative and entrepreneurial universities. This study aimed at identifying the components of professional development of medical education administrators among third-generation universities.

This is a qualitative study regarding the practical purposes,types of data and data analysis methods. To this end a sample of twelve medical education administrators in all universities of medical sciences in the country(Iran) participated in this study that were selected by purposive sampling and complementary snowball sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured interview method and analyzed using inductive content analysis method with maxqda10 softwareValidity and reliability of the study were determined by Guba and Lincoln methods.

383 open source 25 subcategories and 6 main categories of professional development of medical education managers were obtained. Based on the findings, professional development of managers in 6 dimensions including: educational development, researchdevelopment,management skills development, leadership skills development, skills development Individual and contextual development were identified.

Among the six dimensions of the model of professional development of medical education managers in the third generation university, the highest codes are related to the dimension of leadership skills development, which is suggested to be considered as a priority in holding professional development skills training courses for managers.