Credibility of the Pattern of Educational Qualification of Faculty Members

Background: The success of faculty members of Medical Sciences Universities in the medical education arena requires qualification and capability authentication in relation to education. In order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. One of the appropriate approaches is “Competency Based Training” (CBT). In this method, competencies of each profession are identified. Then, educational programs are designed and held to gain the competency for each person in an organization. One of the important steps of CBT is to codify and credit competency Model. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to credit competency model for medical science professors. Method: This study was conducted in 2014. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 120 faculty members of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The present study used census. The questioner was emailed to all faculty members and after 20 days the replies were received. The validity was assessed based on experts’ opinion and reliability was evaluated by Cronbach’s alpha. Results: The results showed that the success of faculty members in education required four main competencies including research competencies, medial competencies, teaching competencies and general competencies. Almost all of them are necessary. Conclusions: According to the results of the study, the credibility of the model is confirmed and this competency model that is codified and credited can be used for different purposes such as selection and recruitment of the faculty members, educational needs-assessment and programming, development and empowerment of them. These findings were compatible with other studies in this field.