Course Description

Evaluating the impact and quality are important to assure that institutions and programmes meet threshold expectations set by funders, governing boards and professional organisations. Using a systematic approach to evaluate quality and use these to enhance the quality assurance and accreditation systems is critical in health professions education. Therefore this workshop will cover the following:

1. Program impact evaluation frameworks

2. Quality Assurance & Quality Maintenance systems

3. Apply the basic principles of program evaluation

4. Apply quality maintenance at programme level

5. Evaluate challenges, limitations and ways forward

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• Apply the basic principles of quality maintenance at programme level
• Discuss and apply principles of continuous quality improvement at Institutional level
• Apply principles of quality assurance and accreditation in health professional education to one’s own learning environment 
• Evaluate challenges, limitations and ways forward for maintaining quality assurance system 
  

Preparation before the session

PART 1: Participants are required to read the following articles [Click the following title to access]:

Free Resources

1. Global Standards and Accreditation in Medical Education: A View from the WFME
2. Caribbean offshore medical schools - Accreditation and financial challenges
3. How to review a medical curriculum
4. Basic medical education WFME global standards for quality improvement [The 2020 Revision] (The user may access any part of the site and download or copy material for personal non-commercial use only)
   

PART 2: Participants are required to go through some materials in CenMED Scholar [Restricted to participants who have Access Code]

1. Participants will be given an Access Code to access the materials in CenMED Scholar by the CenMED Administrator.

2. You may need to register for an account (for new user) in CenMED Scholar before using the Access Code.

3. Once you have entered the Access Code, you may find this course in your  Learner Dashboard