Accreditation… a mission to accomplish or a roadmap for excellence?

Introduction

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The Virtual Medical Academy is pleased to announce the series entitled "Accreditation… a mission to accomplish or a roadmap for excellence?". Expert speakers will discuss important topic regarding accreditation.

1- Program Accreditation for the Healthcare Professions… What could be?
2- Accreditation for Quality Healthcare Education, National Challenges & International Aspirations
3- Quality Assurance in accreditation … A checklist for compliance or a tool for enhancement?
4- أفضل الممارسات الناجحة في تصميم وقياس خصائص خريجي البرامج الأكاديمية
5- Challenges to Accreditation in Higher Education

Objectives

* Program Accreditation for the Healthcare Professions… What could be?

1- What are the development needs of the Saudi health professional educational sector?
2- What are the expectations of accrediting bodies? How could national accreditation help?
3- What future directions should be pursued? What could be?
4- Provide an overview of the new NCAAA program standards
5- How could the VMA help?

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* Accreditation for Quality Healthcare Education, National Challenges & International Aspirations

1- Recognize the importance of aligning national program accreditation with that of the institution
2- Compare national and international accreditation paths for healthcare programs
3- Describe the need for specialized accreditation standards across the healthcare professions
4- Discuss the best pathway for educational healthcare institute accreditations

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* Quality Assurance in accreditation … A checklist for compliance or a tool for enhancement?
1- Present an example of an Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) that helped a healthcare college meet accreditation standards
2- Discuss the different perspectives for defining quality and the importance of closing the quality cycle and implementing improvements plans
3- Differentiate between Quality Assurance and meeting accreditation standards
4- Discuss the most relevant quality assurance standards for educational health professional institute accreditations
5- Discuss the best practices for quality assurance for educational health professional institutes seeking accreditations
6- Determine how healthcare QA standards inform & complement academic QA accreditation standards

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أفضل الممارسات الناجحة في تصميم وقياس خصائص خريجي البرامج الأكاديمية
- مناقشة مفهوم خصائص خريجي البرامج الاكاديمية
- التخطيط لتصميم خصائص الخريجين ضمن نهج تصميم نواتج التعلم على مستويات مختلفة بمرجعية الإطار الوطني للمؤهلات ونظام الاعتماد الوطني
- تحديد خطوات إطار تعزيز خصائص الخريجين
- تحديد مصادر تقويم خصائص الخريجين ونتواتج التعلم للبرنامج والمقررات
- مناقشة تجربة جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز وحراكها لمواءمة خصائص خريجي البرامج الأكاديمية مع المستوى المؤسسي

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* Challenges to Accreditation in Higher Education
- Identify common misconceptions concerning academic accreditations
- Review the concept of triangulation of evidence
- Discuss common misinterpretations of survey results and self-evaluation scales
- Summarize the Do's and Don'ts of writing "safe" self-study reports

Main theme

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