Accreditation provides recognition that an organization’s medical education activities are meeting international standards of quality and excellence. Other benefits include :
- Promotes medical and educational curriculum validity.
- Improves Professional Development within the health care organization and the community; regionally, and internationally.
- Assists the institution to know its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities through an informed review process.
- Identifies internal areas of planning and resource allocation within the continuing professional education.
- Enhances collegiality locally, regionally and internationally.
- Initiates institutions into innovative and modern Medical Education methods of pedagogy.
- Gives institutions a new international sense of direction and identity.
- Provides the health care organization with reliable information on quality of medical education offered.
- Represents the highest quality of medical education an organization can reach.
- Promotes intra and inter-institutional interactions.
- Demonstrates accountability to international and local funding agencies and to the public.
- Demonstrates the organization’s commitment to excellence in medical education for your physicians and other health care professionals.
- Recognizes the organization’s compliance with AACME’s international CME quality standards intended to help achieve the highest level of performance and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates interest, determination and commitment to self-improvement.
- Facilitates continuous Quality Improvement.
- Improves the organization’s staff morale.
- Recognizes the achievements/innovations of the organization.
- Facilitates information sharing within the agency and with other public health agencies, nationally and internationally.
- Assists agencies in addressing changes in public health.
- Strengthens patient confidence and demonstrates the organization’s commitment to excellence in quality care for the patients, residents or individuals served.
