BACKGROUND This paper presents a conceptual framework developed from empirical evidence, to guide medical schools aspiring towards greater social accountability. METHODS Using a multiple case study approach, seventy-five staff, students, health sector representatives and community members, associated with four medical schools, participated in semi-structured interviews. Two schools were in Au...

BACKGROUND Definitions of social accountability describe the obligation of medical schools to direct education, research and service activities towards addressing the priority health concerns of the population they serve. While such statements give some direction as to how the goal might be reached, it does not identify what factors might facilitate or hinder its achievement. This study set out...

Innovation alters who is accountable for social care and how they are held to account. This article shows organisational, institutional technological innovation in infrastructures of can reconfigure accountability instruments propel change between distinct modes accountability. However, also sustains neglect, both terms issues, objects subjects missing from research, low levels reflexivity mobi...

this study examines the relationship between corporate social performance and the company's internal control. for the study, the definition of corporate social performance is used wood (wood, 1991) and social performance into the process (internal processes, management) and outcome (social impact) is divided. to assess the social performance of corporate social performance version of the q...

Individual and organizational actions have social consequences that call for the implementation of recommendations of good conduct at multiple levels of granularity. This work focuses on the accountability value, on how to express it, and on the challenges of handling accountability in a computational way, in a system of interacting agents.

this study examines the mediating role of sense of powerlessness on the relationship between the perception of accountability and citizenship participation among the students of university of tehran. lack of proper accountability can lead to a sense of powerlessness for students to influencing the processes and cause them no incentive to provide cooperation. accordingly, accountability variable...

With the 100th anniversary of Flexner’s seminal report on medical education, The Lancet published guidelines by a global independent Commission that aimed to establish a 21st-century vision for the education of health professionals. As young doctors, we applaud the Commission for moving beyond professional silos to new models of interprofessional collaboration. But there should be more emphasis...