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Medical school accreditation in Australia: Issues involved in assessing major changes and new programs

The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent company for quality assurance and quality improvement in medical education in Australia and New Zealand. Accreditation procedures for the 20 medical schools in these two countries are somewhat different for three different circumstances or stage...

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Autor principal: Field, Michael J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2011.8.6
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description The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent company for quality assurance and quality improvement in medical education in Australia and New Zealand. Accreditation procedures for the 20 medical schools in these two countries are somewhat different for three different circumstances or stages of school development: existing medical schools, established courses undergoing major changes, and new schools. This paper will outline some issues involved in major changes to existing courses, and new medical school programs. Major changes have included change from a 6 year undergraduate course to a 5 year undergraduate course or 4 year graduate-entry course, introduction of a lateral graduate-entry stream, new domestic site of course delivery, offshore course delivery, joint program between two universities, and major change to curriculum. In the case of a major change assessment, accreditation of the new or revised course may be granted for a period up to two years after the full course has been implemented. In the assessment of proposals for introduction of new medical courses, six issues needing careful consideration have arisen: forward planning, academic staffing, adequate clinical experience, acceptable research program, adequacy of resources, postgraduate training program and employment.
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spelling pubmed-31254982011-07-07 Medical school accreditation in Australia: Issues involved in assessing major changes and new programs Field, Michael J. J Educ Eval Health Prof Review The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent company for quality assurance and quality improvement in medical education in Australia and New Zealand. Accreditation procedures for the 20 medical schools in these two countries are somewhat different for three different circumstances or stages of school development: existing medical schools, established courses undergoing major changes, and new schools. This paper will outline some issues involved in major changes to existing courses, and new medical school programs. Major changes have included change from a 6 year undergraduate course to a 5 year undergraduate course or 4 year graduate-entry course, introduction of a lateral graduate-entry stream, new domestic site of course delivery, offshore course delivery, joint program between two universities, and major change to curriculum. In the case of a major change assessment, accreditation of the new or revised course may be granted for a period up to two years after the full course has been implemented. In the assessment of proposals for introduction of new medical courses, six issues needing careful consideration have arisen: forward planning, academic staffing, adequate clinical experience, acceptable research program, adequacy of resources, postgraduate training program and employment. National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea 2011-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3125498/ /pubmed/21738838 http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2011.8.6 Text en © 2011, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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