Seyed Ali Enjoo, Zahra Kavosi, Seyed Ziaadin Tabei, Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (3-2017)
Abstract
Organizational culture affects the values, traditions, and norms of an organization. Therefore, the organizational behavior means how much an organization acts ethically. The cultural environment affects the formation of the organizational climate and, behavior. There are some deficiencies in the standards of organizational culture. This study aimed to review different aspects to accredit hospitals culturally in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and consisted of two stages: First; the initial qualitative study was done by interviewing the experts who were selected purposely and held focused group discussion sessions to recognize the different aspects of cultural validation and develop an cultural accreditation manual for hospitals. Second stage was an evaluation of the hospitals in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences according to the cultural accreditation manual. Among 17 targeted hospitals, passed the training course of identifying indicators and volunteered to participate in the survey, 11 hospitals which had performed self-evaluation according to their manuals entered the survey. Seven main subjects and 17 sub-titles were derived from the first qualitative study. The subjects included considering religious laws demanded by patients and those patients’ accompaniers, patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction, consideration of ethical rules, dress codes, cultural activities of the hospital, and environmental neatness of the hospital. The evaluation of the above factors ranged from 0-1. The hospitals, total scores were from 0.68 to 0.78. Findings suggest capability of the indicators for hospital cultural evaluation. The qualitative study ranked the hospitals in every aspect.
Sedigheh Ebrahimi, Reza Mohammadi, Seyed Ziaedin Tabei,
Volume 12, Issue 0 (3-2019)
Abstract
The white coat ceremonies are a recent phenomenon in medical education at the first steps of their education, that use as a symbol to impress upon medical students the importance of professionalism in medicine. This ceremony is known as one of the primary preparations for entrance of medical students to clinical courses. This study aims to investigate the effect of white coat ceremonies on professional ethics and student familiarity with their professional tasks in clinical departments. The present study is a qualitative study on the students' viewpoints regarding white coat ceremony and based on goal-based sampling. The statistical population included 4th-year medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1394. Data collection was done by a mixed method which one part of it was the half structural interview and another part by answering the open questions. Data collection continued to the saturation phase, furthermore; the data were analyzed by content analysis method according to the instructions. Most of the participants in this study considered holding a ceremony before entering the hospital as an important event for the readiness of students to go through a clinical course. The most important positive effects of white coat ceremony were increased students' commitment and accountability, improved interactions with patients, increased motivation and self-confidence, and familiarity with some of the basic principles of professional ethics. A white coat celebration can enhance the students' familiarity with their professional duties and motivations. More studies are needed to better understand the strengths, weaknesses, and shortcomings of this ritual.
