A model for evaluation of faculty members’ activities based on meta-evaluation of a 5-year experience in medical school

Background: there is a global interest for deploying faculty members’ activities evaluation systems,however implementing a fair and reliable system is a challenging issue. in this study,the authors devised a model for evaluation of faculty members’ activities with regard to their viewpoints and meta-evaluation standards. materials and methods: the reliability of the current faculty members’ activities metrics system was investigated in medical school of tehran university of medical sciences in 2014. then authors conducted semi-structured interviews regarding meta-evaluation standards and designed a questionnaire based on interviews’ results which were delivered to faculty members. finally,they extracted the components of the model regarding interviews’ content analysis and questionnaire’s factor analysis and finalized them in a focus group session with experts. results: reliability of the current system was 0.99 (p < 0.05). the final model had six dimensions (mission alignment,accuracy,explicit,satisfaction,appropriateness,and constructiveness) derived from factor analysis of the questionnaire and nine factors (consensus,self-reporting,web-based system,evaluation period,minimum expectancies,analysis intervals,verifiers,flexibility,and decision making) obtained via qualitative content analysis of the interviews. conclusion: in this study,the authors presented a model for faculty members’ activities evaluation based on meta-evaluation of the existing system. the model covered conceptual and executive aspects. faculty members’ viewpoints were the core component of this model,so it would be acceptable in a medical school to use the model for evaluating their activities. © 2015 journal of research in medical sciences.