Current themes and challenges facing HPE accreditation in the 21st century
2020-09-28 15:37:28
A supplement in BMC Medical Education on Health Professional Education accreditation from the community of practice The International Health Professions Accreditation Outcomes Consortium (IFPAOC) - which was founded in 2012.
This supplement focuses on graduate and residency programmes but it also addresses the trend to move postgraduate and continuing education (lifelong learning in healthcare) towards clinical outcomes.
"To date, this group has organized two world summits on HPE accreditation, one in 2013 in conjunction with the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) in Calgary, Canada, and the second in 2018 in conjunction with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference in Basel, Switzerland. Both summits used an iterative group process to identify themes related to the current state of and future directions for HPE accreditation." ...
"Accreditation has taken on greater importance in contemporary HPE."
"The framework highlights that, rather than a single best practice, variation among accreditation systems is appropriate provided that is it tailored to the needs of local contexts."
"Accrediting bodies are beginning to view the use of practice outcome measures as an important step toward better continuous educational quality improvement. The use of outcomes will present challenges in data collection, aggregation, and interpretation."
Source: bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com
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