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BACKGROUND: Faculty development programs as useful approaches for organizational developmentimproved competencies in faculty members which assist them to cope with workload and environmentchanges. Evaluating organizational development for faculty development programs provides insightinto the impact of these programs on system development. The aim of present study was conductedto study the organizational development for faculty development programs at Kerman University ofMedical Sciences.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This analytical and cross‑sectional study was conducted betweenOctober and December 2020. The organizational development for faculty development questionnairewas sent to a simple random sampling of 100 faculty members who had been participated in the“Medical Education Fellowship” program. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics includingindependent sample t‑test, one‑way ANOVA, and post hoc, using version 24.0 of SPSS.RESULTS: The response rate was 82%. Most of the faculty highly agreed that the “Medical EducationFellowship” program had produced organizational development. The score of the “Development andsustaining faculty development programs” domain (mean = 3.35, standard deviation [SD] =0.96) washigher than “Development and innovation in teaching and learning process” (mean = 3.31, SD = 0.74).CONCLUSIONS: Specific characteristics of the organizational development process for facultydevelopment programs in health profession education were recognized. The findings emphasized onthe importance of these interventions on creating developments in the broader community system.