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Accreditation Process (accreditation + process)
Selected AbstractsLetter: Procedural Dermatology Fellow Evaluation and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Accreditation ProcessDERMATOLOGIC SURGERY, Issue 7 2009STAN TAYLOR MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Rethinking the OSCE as a Tool for National Competency EvaluationEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DENTAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2004M. A. Boyd The relatively recent curriculum change to Problem-Based Learning/Case-Based Education has stimulated the development of new evaluation tools for student assessment. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has become a popular method for such assessment. The National Dental Examining Board of Canada (NDEB) began using an OSCE format as part of the national certification testing process for licensure of beginning dentists in Canada in 1996. The OSCE has been well received by provincial licensing authorities, dental schools and students. ,Hands on' clinical competency is trusted to the dental programs and verified through NDEB participation in the Accreditation process. The desire to refine the OCSE has resulted in the development of a new format. Previously OSCE stations consisted of case-based materials and related multiple-choice questions. The new format has case-based material with an extended match presentation. Candidates ,select one or more correct answers' from a group of up to15 options. The blueprint is referenced to the national competencies for beginning practitioners in Canada. This new format will be available to students on the NDEB website for information and study purposes. Question stems and options will remain constant. Case histories and case materials will change each year. This new OSCE will be easier to administer and be less expensive in terms of test development. Reliability and validity is enhanced by involving content experts from all faculties in test development, by having the OSCE verified by general practitioners and by making the format available to candidates. The new OSCE will be pilot tested in September 2004. Examples will be provided for information and discussion. [source] Success stories from the library accreditation process in health-care libraries in EnglandHEALTH INFORMATION & LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Issue 2 2006Valerie M. Trinder First page of article [source] Report on accreditation learning sets in the West Midlands Region of the NHSHEALTH INFORMATION & LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000Gwen Giles This article reports on the evaluation of the first year of a project, which utilized learning sets to support librarians undergoing the accreditation process, in the health libraries in the West Midlands region of the NHS. The West Midlands Health region is divided up into education consortia patches. Each group of patch librarians was allocated a local accreditation facilitator. The groups met regularly to discuss problems and progress relating to their library's accreditation. The results of the evaluation suggest that this is a valuable approach to use. The recommendations state that regular, frequent meetings are needed. Extra training and guidance would help the facilitators to be more effective in their role. [source] The CREDIT project: Towards a generic framework for assessment and accreditation,a prototype for childcareBRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, Issue 4 2000Jacobijn Sandberg Many individuals throughout Europe acquire knowledge and skills in an informal manner for which they find no official recognition. Procedures for assessment and accreditation are meant to help individuals in finding recognition of previously gained competencies. The CREDIT (Capabilities, Registration, Evaluation, Diagnosis and advice through Internet Technology) project develops a computer system that supports the assessment and accreditation process and provides advice on further training possibilities tailored to the level of knowledge and skills of individuals. [source] Does observer bias contribute to variations in the rate of retinopathy of prematurity between centres?CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, Issue 1 2008Brian A Darlow MD FRACP Abstract Purpose:, We aimed to indirectly assess the contribution from observer bias to between centre variability in the incidence of acute retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Methods:, The Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) collected data on the highest stage of acute ROP in either eye in 2286 infants born at less than 29 weeks in 1998,1999 and cared for in one of 25 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Chi-squared analysis was used to detect differences in the proportion of stages of ROP for each neonatal intensive care unit. These proportions were compared with those reported in two large studies of treatment for ROP. Results:, The incidence of acute ROP in the ANZNN cohort was 42% and the ratio of stage 1:2:3 ROP was 1.5:1.9:1. There was considerable variation in both the incidence of acute ROP and the proportions with stage 1:2:3 ROP between centres. A chi-squared test determined that the assignment of stages 1, 2 and 3/4 ROP was not independent of centre (,248 = 165.2; P < 0.0001). Treatment of stage 3 ROP varied between 15% and 120%, indicating some eyes were treated at less than stage 3. Conclusion:, The data are highly suggestive of observer bias contributing to the observed between centre variation in the incidence of acute ROP. In neonatal intervention studies where acute ROP is an outcome it would seem important to have an accreditation process for examining ophthalmologists, and there are similar arguments for neonatal networks which collect these data. [source] | ||||||||||