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Author(s) -
PM Lamont,
Anna Yerokhina
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363514x14042954768916
Subject(s) - accreditation , general partnership , quality assurance , promotion (chess) , medical education , medicine , quality (philosophy) , business , family medicine , political science , service (business) , marketing , finance , philosophy , epistemology , politics , law
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) have a strategic partnership for the promotion of accreditation in medical education around the world. They have developed accreditation guidelines, which recommend establishing accreditation that is effective, independent, transparent and based on criteria specific to medical education. So far, only a minority of countries have quality assurance systems based on external evaluation and the majority use only general criteria when approving or evaluating an educational activity.