Medical education: future-proof?
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External site visits as part of the process of accreditation are an important aspect of quality control of medical education programmes. In 2011/2012 all medical schools (University Medical Centres, UMCs) in the Netherlands had such a visit. According to the accreditation system of the Netherlands and Flanders, accreditation has to be renewed every 6 years. The preparation of the site visit starts with the writing of a ‘critical reflection’ describing three aspects of the programme: the intended learning outcomes, the teaching and learning environment and the assessment. Furthermore, the critical reflection should present facts and figures about numbers of staff involved, supportive personnel, study results, etc. Due to changes in the accreditation system, the process of quality control of the programme is no longer part of the critical reflection and site visit. In the new system of accreditation the universities can apply for accreditation of the quality control process of all the programmes they offer [1]. Once institutional accreditation has been acquired, the site visits of the individual programmes are limited to the three standards mentioned above. Accreditation is given by the Netherlands and Flanders Accreditation Organization (NVAO) on the basis of the site visit report of an independent and certified visiting organization. As the Deans of the eight UMCs felt that this series of site visits should have additional value for all UMCs, the visiting organization was asked to evaluate all programmes in a separate ‘state of the art’ report. In autumn 2012, the state of the art report was presented [2]. The report contains examples of best practices, a benchmarking of the Dutch programmes with the curricula of medical schools abroad and the committee’s ideas about medical education in the next decades. The authors will elaborate in more detail on the content of the report in one of the forthcoming issues of PME. In general, according to the opinion of the visiting committee, the quality of the medical programmes in the Netherlands is good and the graduates of these
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