The Plan to Integrate Medical Education with the Service Delivery System in Iran from an Educational Perspective: A Scoping Review

Introduction: Education in medical sciences is one of the most basic structures of societies, the most desirable outcome of which is improving the health level of individual members of society. Therefore, the current study was conducted to review the plan of integrating medical education with the service delivery system in Iran from an educational perspective. Method: This was a scoping review study. Data were collected using keywords in Magiran, ISC, SID, Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar databases in the period from 2001 to 2024. Screening and selection of documents was done according to Prisma instructions. Results: In the initial search, 180 articles were found, with 19 included in the study. The results showed that the growth of the workforce, socialization of education, progress in the field of medicine, and increase in research rank are the strong points of this project. However, more attention is paid to the issue of treatment than education, conflict of interests, and low quality of services in hospitals. Education and lack of research funds are among the existing matters. Conclusion: The integration of medical education with healthcare services has successfully achieved its primary goals. Nevertheless, it seems that medical education in universities has been under the shadow of the debate on health provision and medical services, and education and research have benefited less from the positive effects of integration.