Presenting a Model Explaining the Factors Affecting the Faculty Academic Recession at Ardabil University of Medical Sciences

The purpose of this study was to present a model to explain the factors affecting the academicrecession of faculty members at Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran. As adescriptive-survey research having a mixed methods design, this study identifies the relevantindicators, puts forward rating and validation of a model. In the qualitative phase, thepopulation included university experts, faculty members, experts in the field of highereducation, and policymakers. We selected ۱۰ people as participants through purposivesampling. In the quantitative phase, all faculty members of Ardabil University of MedicalSciences including ۲۲۶ people were selected by the complete enumeration method. The datacollection instrumentation included an interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. Theresults of the analysis of interviews with Grounded Theory and content analysis revealed thatthe factors affecting the academic recession of faculty members at Ardabil University ofMedical Sciences include: personal factors (age, IQ, work history, personality traits, maritalstatus, and gender); organizational and environmental factors (type of employment,organizational structure, salary and benefits, governing relationships in promotion, universitymanagement, and rules and regulations); psychological factors (lack of success, inappropriatesocial relationships, not enjoying work, and job stress); work factors (being members ofdifferent scientific committees, priority of economic and financial factors among physicians,prioritization of work in the personal surgery office, lack of appropriate incentives andpenalties, the value of the title of physician and no need for promotion, and ignoring medicalerrors), and skill factors (lack of language proficiency, weakness in public speaking, and lackof skill in using specialized software).

Keywords:

Academic Recession , Faculty , University of Medical Sciences