PURPOSE The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) evaluate internal medicine residency programs using a list of 301 program requirements. The authors investigated which requirements, program demographics, and site-visitor characteristics were the strongest predictors of accreditation. METHOD The authors surveyed ...

Engineering departments may face a formidable task in conducting effective accreditation reviews of their programs and ensuring that their outcomes meet the demands of the accrediting organisation. Not least of these tasks is walking the political tightrope of academic staff engagement in environments that reward research over and above educational tasks. This is exacerbated if and when existin...

Laboratory accreditation is an essential element in the healthcare system since it contributes substantially to decision-making, in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the health status of the patients, as well as in the organization and management of public healthcare. Therefore, the clinical biochemistry professional works continuously to provide reliable results and contrib...

Reduction of unexplained variation in medical practice and health outcomes is of paramount importance, which indicates a need for a continuum of medical learning that begins in medical school and continues until the end of a professional career. That, in turn, indicates need for continuing assessment of professional competence. The American Board of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatric...

One way to improve the quality of hospital services is accreditation and, as a strategy for improving services, many countries have launched their national accreditation system (1, 2). Accreditation, as an independent voluntary program, was established in 1917 in the United States by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for evaluating hospitals. In 1998, its...

S oftware engineering (SE) is maturing as a discipline and profession, but three decades after the first NATO Conference on Software Engineering, it is still not regarded as a legitimate , respectable engineering profession. In 1995, Gary Ford and Norman Gibbs of the Software Engineering Institute evaluated what it means for a profession to be mature and how SE was doing. 1 Their extensive and ...

This article discusses the background, goals, criteria, current results, impact, and future directions of the American College of Radiology's (ACR's) Mammography Accreditation Program. To date, approximately one half of the mammographic units in the United States have voluntarily applied for accreditation through the ACR program, with approximately one quarter of the units in the United States ...

The Joint Education Committee of the Chiropractors and Osteopaths Registration Boards of NSW and Victoria shall consist of 8 members, 4 of whom will be nominated by each Board. Of the nominees of each Board, at least one must be a chiropractor and one an osteopath. Other members will be at the discretion of the respective Boards. The Committee’s Chairperson shall be appointed by the Committee. ...

Taking a view of curriculum design as the definition of a long-term learner model, we are exploring ways to capture the complex set of goals for tertiary institutions, their faculties, staff and students as well as accreditation requirements. This can serve several important goals: greater flexibility for students; providing academic staff with greater understanding and control of the curriculu...