بررسی وضعیت مدیریت دانش در علوم پزشکی

Introduction: Knowledge is the most essential asset for medical sciences education and universities to create value and valuable advantage for its potential in human societies. Universities of medical sciences to become the knowledge base organization depended to knowledge management activities seriously. Low information about knowledge management and ambiguity in this area are causing insufficient and improper utilization of knowledge in the organizations, especially educational organizations. Despite the importance of knowledge management, there is little knowledge about it. Therefore, it is need to be known how to manage it. The purpose of the present article was to study the state of medical knowledge management. Method: This study was a narrative review study. A literature review was done for information in some scientific sites, Internet and knowledge base resources such as Science Direct, Elsevier ،Web of Sciences (ISI), SINAHL, Embas, Ebsco, Ovid, Google Scholar, proQuest and knowledge base resources in Iran such as SID, given key words includes knowledge, knowledge management, health sciences, higher education in distinctly and combination form, in varied sites with Persian and English words. Then reviewed articles and journals and selected appropriate articles, summarized selected content, compared and described various aspect of subject. This study was done by 17 published knowledge management articles in the field of Medical science in Iran and aboard. Results: Review results indicated that faculty, staff and stakeholders of the healthcare system maintain convert tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, apply it in clinical guidelines, via creating, capturing, sharing and applying knowledge for teaching, learning and research in community health promotion. Organizational learning process was continuous and permanent in Medical Sciences Universities. Knowledge embedment in the equipment and its application for education and care such as decision support systems in the clinical setting were another dimension of knowledge management at the Medical Sciences University. Infrastructure of knowledge management is necessary to created and continues for the implementation of knowledge management such as leadership, culture and technology. Conclusion: Knowledge management is an approach that prepares the advanced practice in health sciences member boards, stakeholders and students via creating, capturing, sharing and usage for the ever-changing health educational environment. It means that Knowledge management persuades Medical Sciences Universities to work more smartly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. There is necessary to reinforcing knowledge management to promote knowledge management programs implementation in health science education.