Objective. To investigate if an accreditation program facilitates healthcare organisations (HCOs) to evolve and maintain high performance human resource management (HRM) systems. Design. Cross sectional multi-method study. Setting and participants. Healthcare organisations participating in the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP) between ...

Enhancements In part, OPTIs were developed in response to the changing needs for delivery of postgraduate medical education and to provide assurance that institutions are committed to and capable of delivering uniquely osteopathic postdoctoral training. The Council on Postdoctoral Training (COPT) approves internship and residency training programs in hospitals either accredited by the AOA or af...

Pharmacy residencies (originally termed “internships”) began in the early 1930s, primarily for the purpose of training pharmacists for the management of pharmacy services in hospitals. The first nonacademic residency program is believed to have been conducted by Harvey A. K. Whitney at the University of Michigan Hospital. Approximately 10 years later, the first residency program combined with f...

1 Institute for Technical Cooperation in Health, Potomac, Maryland, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Humberto M. Novaes, INTECH, Inc., 12 Pasture Brook Court, Potomac, Maryland 20854-2954, United States of America; telephone: (301) 610-9620; fax: (301) 610-9621; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Case Western Reserve University, Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America...

The National Commission for Assessment, Assurance and Accreditation (NCAAA) is the Quality Assessment arm of the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). In this paper we describe a locally-developed Webbased Outcome-Directed "Program-Level" accreditation system that complies and provides guidance with the NCAAA program accreditation requirements. It has dual purpose: first to automate the pr...

Many educational institutions are adopting national and international accreditation programs to improve teaching, student learning, and curriculum. There is a growing demand across higher education for automation and helpful educational resources to continuously improve student outcomes. The student outcomes are the required knowledge and skill set that graduates of any accredited program have ...