Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی

2 دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اردبیل

3 PhD Student in Educational Administration, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Employed in the management of academic affairs and graduate studies in Medical Sciences University of Ardabil, Iran

Abstract

These are valuable sources of information. They play a crucial role in the body of knowledge. A large amount considerable energy and time of faculty members of universities are spent on them every year. This research aimed at identifying the components of a purposive thesis in the country’s universities of medical sciences. This research, which was conducted using grounded theory method. The statistical population consists of 60 individuals including all the deputies and directors of the country’s universities of medical sciences. Data of 38 individuals using purposive method. Therefore, 38 individuals were saturated as the research participants. The data were collected using an open-ended questionnaire. Non-participating experts’ revision method was used for achieving reliability and validity of the data and the data were analyzed using the method of content analysis. Two-hundred and four codes were obtained by the analysis of responses, which were then placed in 53 IDs (concepts). The IDs were placed within 23 basic concepts and three major concepts (input components of thesis, process components of thesis, and output components of thesis) were extracted from them. The purposive thesis was selected as the core category after combining and analyzing the primary concepts and categories. Finally, some strategies were formulated as per the systematic approach of grounded theory with respect to the causal conditions, underlying conditions, and confounding conditions and the final model was presented based on that. It is possible to achieve purposive theses in the universities of medical sciences while considering a systematic attitude toward thesis factors into consideration

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