Abstract

Introduction: Educational accreditation was done recently as an important step in the implementation of the project entitled “change and innovation in medical sciences education”and its pathology is an important need for achieving its goals i.e. educational quality assurance and promotion. The purpose of the present research is the pathology of the institute accreditation of Medical Sciences at Guilan University. Method: The present research has used the qualitative method along with the Grounded Theory approach. The participants purposefully implemented the institute accreditation of Medical Sciences in Guilan University using the theoretical sampling of 30 participans. The referral to the next participant continued until the end of theoretical saturation of the findings. The data were collected through semi-structured and in-depth interviews and the data analysis was done using the emergent approach (Glaser’s approach). Findings: Based on the results of the qualitative research, three main damages i.e. damages of the cultural context of the university, damages of the university’s structure and damages of educational accreditation plan were identified and a prescriptive pattern was designed based on the removal of the damages. Conclusion: By eliminating the recognized pathologies, the suitable implementation of the institute educational accreditation is contributed and finally educational quality assurances as well as the promotion of education quality at medical sciences universities are conducted.