en Medical Education Medical Education Point of View <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">Considering all&nbsp; medical schools in the nation and the preparation of the third round, which will begin in the coming months, a review of the accreditation of undergraduate medical education programs in Iran has identified both opportunities and threats with regard to the 2 previous rounds. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">The prediction of the third round will not result in quality assurance or improvement for medical schools if the aforementioned opportunities and threats are not carefully examined. This is due in part to a misinterpretation of the nature of accreditation, which is an expertise model, where expertise is the matter of competence, competency, knowledge, skills, and attitude that must be examined in compliance with the well-organized criteria. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Undergraduate Medical Education Program Accreditation, Postaccreditation Monitoring 81 83 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-8080-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Babak Sabet sabetdivshali@gmail.com 200319475328460088266 200319475328460088266 No Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mahdi Aghabagheri Mahdi.Aghabagheri@gmail.com 200319475328460088267 200319475328460088267 No Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Abtin Heidarzadeh abtinh@gmail.com 200319475328460088268 200319475328460088268 No Medical Education Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran Ebrahim Kalantar Dr.kalantar@gmail.com 200319475328460088269 200319475328460088269 No Smart University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Marzieh Nojomi mnojomi@iums.ac.ir 200319475328460088270 200319475328460088270 Yes Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran