Anne Ross Library Blog

Friday, March 23, 2012

Residency Programs Facing Accreditation Changes

"Financing Graduate Medical Education — Mounting Pressure for Reform",
by John K. Iglehart, NEJM: Perspective, March 21, 2012.

“A significant step forward is the announcement by the ACGME [Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education] describing major changes in how the nation's residency programs will be accredited in the future, putting in place an outcomes-based evaluation system by which new physicians will be measured for their competency in performing the essential tasks necessary for clinical practice in the 21st century.” ~ Dr. Darrell Kirch, chief executive officer of the AAMC.

Labels: accreditation, ACGME, financing, graduate medical education, medical education, medical reform, medical residency programs, NEJM, United States

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Striving for Quality in Tertiary Education in the Caribbean

The 6th Annual CANQATE 2009 conference:
Balancing Quality and Quantity: The Global Challenge for Tertiary Education was held in Bridgetown, Barbados October 6~8, 2009.

However if you missed the event or you wish to revisit it, click on the title to view pictures, and access plenary sessions & presentations of the conference, in .pdf and powerpoint, from their website.

Note the paper presented on Medical Education in the Caribbean
by Lorna Parkins Director CAAM-HP.

CANQATE stands for Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education.

Labels: accreditation, Barbados, CAAM-HP, CANQATE, Caribbean, Caribbean medical education, education conferences, medical education, tertiary education

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