The Education Group of the Academy of Medical Sciences, operating within the Academy’s overarching mission to contribute to the realization of a society grounded in monotheistic values in order to accheire scientific and cultural independence strengthening and promoting medical sciences and technologies, relying upon rich cultural and Islamic heritage, contemporary knowledge, collective efforts, and the encouragement and support of eminent scholars, to promote public health and to expand the frontiers of medical-education knowledge in the country.

Major objectives of the Group include horizon-scanning of medical education in cooperation with relevant bodies and the timely provision of expert opinions on fundamental and strategic educational matters, together with efforts to enhance the status and dignity of medical education. The Group’s programs are implemented through a variety of activities, including: analyzing the current state of medical education nationwide and proposing required amendments to concerned authorities; studying successful international experiences and recent pedagogical findings and recommending practical modalities for their adaptation to the country’s context and capacities; formulating an Islamic–Iranian model for the development of medical education; pursuing large-scale educational monitoring programs; promoting the advancement of medical-education scholarship and continuously striving to raise its national standards; facilitating information exchange, scholarly dialogue, and specialist exchanges with medical-education experts from other countries; disseminating educational research and new findings nationally and internationally; encouraging educators to produce scientific and developmental works; advising relevant authorities and providing expert commentaries on educational issues; and engaging Iranian scholars abroad to harness their capacities for the development of medical education.

Membership comprises a number of distinguished professors, scholars, specialists, and researchers from relevant academic fields, including medical sciences, the humanities, medical ethics, seminary scholars, and health-system policymakers, and the Group meets monthly to deliberate, plan, and coordinate its activities.