en ● Health Education ویو پوینت Viewpoint <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;">Social accountability is a central theme in contemporary medical education. While originating in community-based education, social accountability is relevant to academic medical centers as a whole. Historically, institutions of medical education, while focusing on improving the health of the population, have neglected the care of the community in which they are situated. This inequity has been described as a form of colonialism.</span></span></span></div> Social accountability, Medical education, Low- and middle-income countries, Accreditation 113 116 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2493-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mahdi Aghabagheri Mahdi.Aghabagheri@gmail.com 100319475328460046405 100319475328460046405 Yes Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Abtin Heidarzadeh abtinh@gmail.com 100319475328460046406 100319475328460046406 No Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. Robert Woollard woollard@familymed.ubc.ca 100319475328460046407 100319475328460046407 No Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Endowment Lands, Canada. Mark K. Huntington Mark.Huntington@usd.edu 100319475328460046408 100319475328460046408 No Department of Family Medicine;School of Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford, Vermillion, South Dakota.