Exploring the Role of Accreditation in Enhancing Quality and Innovation in Health Professions Education: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, et al.

The purpose of accreditation is to build a competent health workforce by ensuring the quality of training taking place within those institutions that have met certain criteria. It is the combination of institution or program accreditation with individual licensure--for confirming practitioner competence--that governments and professions use to reassure the public of the capability of its health workforce. Accreditation offers educational quality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309449251
• ISBN13: 9780309449250
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"