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Quality Assurance (QA), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Quality Culture (QC) shape quality in health professions education (HPE). QC is participatory, QA emphasizes compliance, and TQM focuses on competitiveness.

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  • Health Professions Education
  • Higher Education Quality Management
  • Discourse Analysis

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  • Health professions education (HPE) is increasingly viewed through lenses of social responsibility and accountability.
  • This study investigates the construction of 'quality' within HPE via specific management discourses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze how Total Quality Management (TQM), Quality Assurance (QA), and Quality Culture (QC) discourses define quality in health professions education.
  • To compare discursive patterns and power-knowledge dynamics across these three quality frameworks.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a Foucauldian discourse analysis (DA) approach.
  • Systematically identified and analyzed academic articles from the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).
  • Compared discursive patterns and power-knowledge relations within and across TQM, QA, and QC frameworks.

Main Results:

  • Quality Culture (QC) is presented as a participatory, value-driven approach.
  • Quality Assurance (QA) is characterized by external control and compliance.
  • Total Quality Management (TQM) positions quality as a strategic resource for market competitiveness.

Conclusions:

  • Quality discourses act as "regimes of truth" influencing governance and institutional priorities in higher education (HE) and HPE.
  • Hybrid models integrating QC's cultural aspects with QA's regulatory mechanisms could foster socially responsible quality development.