OBJECTIVE To improve academic general pediatrics (AGP) fellowship programs by 1) developing curriculum guidelines and program standards and 2) creating a process for program review and consultation that might later be used for accreditation of AGP fellowship programs. METHODS This project of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) created 4 documents: AGP fellowship program requirements, c...

Patients expect to receive safe, predictable and high-quality care delivered by competent professionals. Thus, it has become important to provide specific training in existing and new modalities and prove on-going clinical expertise. Hospital credentialing is the process by which the competence of a doctor is determined by the hospital management. In Australia, radiologists participate in a man...

Quality improvement is needed to meet the demands for quality while simultaneously reducing the cost of delivered health care. In a competitive market of corporate hospitals, quality improvement would lower the proportion of unit cost relative to potential revenue thereby increasing profit. For public hospitals, the mandate for 'minimum quality', which is the basis for accreditation, could also...

From the Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Board of Pediatrics, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, or th...

Dear Colleagues, I have wanted for a long time to share with you some developments in the accreditation of family med icine (FM) residency programs. In a recent member survey, 80% of you recognized the importance of the role the CFPC plays in accrediting these programs. First, a little bit of history. Dr Victor Johnston, the first Executive Director of the CFPC, saw the need for FM training sta...

Accreditation is usually a voluntary program, in which authorized external peer reviewers evaluate the compliance of a health care organization with pre-established performance standards. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature of the attitude of health care professionals towards professional accreditation. A systematic search of four databases including Medline, Embas...

BACKGROUND Accreditation is used increasingly in health systems worldwide. However, there is a lack of evidence on the effects of accreditation, particularly in general practice. In 2016 a mandatory accreditation scheme was initiated in Denmark, and during a 3-year period all practices, as default, should undergo accreditation according to the Danish Healthcare Quality Program. The aim of this ...

Preparing for an ABET accreditation visit is a periodic process that can be facilitated using a systematic approach to conduct the Self Study and generate the report. This paper presents a multi-year approach to accreditation applied within Yale University’s Chemical Engineering program to understand the accreditation policies and procedures, investigate mechanisms to record and track performan...