The article is devoted to the analysis some features of legal regulation digitalization forensic science. Some aspects development professional standards were also considered. author examines in detail main purposes accreditation testing and calibration laboratories. From a practical point view, shortcomings approaches digital traces research

AANA Journal  December 2012  Vol. 80, No. 6 471 T he accreditation program for nurse anesthesia was initiated in 1952 by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA). The accreditation function was transferred to the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs/Schools in 1975 in response to a major revision of the US Office of Education criteria. Since 1975, the...

Although conventional approaches to health care quality improvement based on educating providers and offering feedback have been proposed, the tremendous public and professional concerns raised by the Institute of Medicine’s report on medical errors have led to an unusual amount of interest in regulatory and legislative efforts to improve safety. Given the traditional American dependence on edu...

Although conventional approaches to health care quality improvement based on educating providers and offering feedback have been proposed, the tremendous public and professional concerns raised by the Institute of Medicine’s report on medical errors have led to an unusual amount of interest in regulatory and legislative efforts to improve safety. Given the traditional American dependence on edu...

BACKGROUND Accreditation usually requires that healthcare staff assess the quality of care delivered to patients in their own hospitals. It is unknown whether this assessment depends on the workplace rather than on the professional category of health personnel. OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify major determinants of the perception of various categories of healthcare professionals concerning the ...

Assessment of graduate medical trainee progress via the accomplishment of competency milestones is an important element of the Next Accreditation System of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. This article summarizes the findings of a multisociety working group that was tasked with creating the entrustable professional activities and curricular milestones for fellowship tra...

To stay abreast of new developments in the medical specialties, it is essential for physicians to attend programs in continuing medical education. To ensure that these programs meet a high standard of quality, several professional societies, including the American Medical Association, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and others, established the Accreditation Council for Continuing Med...

Quality management systems in Higher Education have been developed for a number of years to improve professional standards. Several attempts have been made to develop methods that would be modelled on   and , but some of these models were developed to evaluate a business process in the quality field. Education is looking for a management concept that would direct the collective effort...

Objective. To describe an approach for assessing the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education's (ACPE) doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Standard 4.4, which focuses on students' professional development. Methods. This investigation used mixed methods with triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data to assess professional development. Qualitative data came from an electronic developmental p...