In 2014, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine approved a single accreditation system for graduate medical education in the United States. For osteopathic graduate medical education programs transitioning to ACGME accreditation, this change has been met with a mixture...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Since the mid-1980s, the number of osteopathic graduates has increased, and the number of osteopathic hospitals has decreased. This has led to an increasing number of osteopathic students seeking training in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) family practice residency programs. In response to these developments and to a declining pool of allop...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular risk management is largely provided in primary healthcare, but not all patients with established cardiovascular diseases receive preventive treatment as recommended. Accreditation of healthcare organizations has been introduced across the world with a range of aims, including the improvement of clinical processes and outcomes. The Dutch College of General Practitioners...

The National Commission for Assessment, Assurance and Accreditation (NCAAA) is the Quality Assessment arm of the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). In this paper we describe a locally-developed Webbased Outcome-Directed "Program-Level" accreditation system that complies and provides guidance with the NCAAA program accreditation requirements. It has dual purpose: first to automate the pr...

The quality of Education in Chile is a controversial topic that has been in the public debate in the last several years. To ensure quality in graduate programs, accreditation is compulsory. The current article presents a model to improve the process of self-regulation. The main objective was to design a Model of Quality Assurance for Postgraduate Programs in order to constitute a theoretical, m...

In 2013, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented the Next Accreditation System. A major goal of the new system is for program accreditation to become a continuous process of quality improvement. Accredited residency and fellowship programs report specified data annually to the ACGME. These data are then reviewed by the specialty review committees for complia...

This paper addresses the perennial issue, "How much V&V is enough for an accreditation?" or, perhaps more to the point, "How much do you have to spend to convince someone that your model is any good?". The answer is discussed in terms of our experience in providing accreditation support for weapons system programs within the Department of Defense (DoD). We begin by describing an integrated V&V ...

This paper discusses verification, validation, and accreditation of simulation models. The different approaches to deciding model validity are presented; how model verification and validation relate to the model development process are discussed; various validation techniques are defined; conceptual model validity, model verification, operational validity, and data validity are described; ways ...

NHS Evidence has accredited the process used by the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE to produce guidelines. Accreditation is valid for 5 years from September 2009 and applies to guidelines produced since April 2007 using the processes described in NICE's 'The guidelines manual' (2007, updated 2009). More information on accreditation can be viewed at www.evidence.nhs.uk Spasticity in childre...