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2014, Cilt 4, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 156-166 |
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DOI: 10.5961/jhes.2014.099 |
Reconceiving Higher Education and Medical Faculties, Planning Future |
Mehmet Ali GÜLPINAR |
Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, İstanbul, Turkey |
Keywords: Change in higher education, Health and medicine, Interdisciplinary approach |
In our era in which the higher education is undergoing a fast transformation at the paradigm level throughout the world, it has become
imperative to re-handle and restructure the higher education system in all its aspects. In this process, carrying out studies through various
methods like holding search conferences/meetings, thematic meetings, workshops at the national level as well as more detailed studies
done at university, faculty and department level are also of importance. In this context, this study aims at evaluating the search meeting in
which the present and the future of a university and a faculty were handled, evaluating the ‘present of the faculty' and searching for answers
to the question “How should tomorrow's School of Medicine be?” In four search meetings each lasted four hours overall and held with
58 participants at the total, an unusual format of ‘brainstorm' composed of three sessions was used and the content analysis of the writt en
views and evaluations stated by the participants during the first session was performed. Th e findings obtained from the study indicate the
importance of micro scale studies to be conducted on the university level, faculty level and department level as well as the macro scale
studies to be conducted for restructuring the higher education with its main frame, structure, functions and administration.
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