Document Type : Original Article
Authors
- . Abbas Abbaspour 1
- . Hamid Rahimian 1
- . Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh 2
- . Amirhossein Maghari 3
- . Zahra Danial 1
1 Department of Management and Educational Planning, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
2 Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
3 Department of Family Health, Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC), Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran Atherosclerosis Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite the great comparative advantage of Iran in terms of infrastructure,
technology, and human resources as well as the significance of medical tourism in the tourist industry,
in practice, the quality of human resources has received less attention. Consequently, this study was
conducted to design a model of competency‑based training for Iranian medical tourism.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was an exploratory mix, and the Delphi method and
semi‑structured interviews were used for the qualitative part of this study. In the second part, the
analytical method was utilized for the quantitative part of this study.
RESULTS: The results indicated the main components of medical tourism to be public interactions
and private interactions and seven subcomponents. Medical Tourism’s Competency includes three
main components and seven subcomponents.
CONCLUSION: Although some training separated and scattered is present in Iran’s medical tourism.
However, Iran requires a comprehensive training model of which its design was explained in this paper.
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