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Continuing full
accreditation for undergrad curriculum
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Memorial
University’s undergraduate medical curriculum has received continuing
full accreditation until the next site visit in 2012-13.
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Memorial University’s undergraduate
medical curriculum has received continuing full accreditation until
the next site visit in 2012-13.
The MD Undergraduate Medical Education
Program accreditation site visit took place May 15-18, 2005. The
Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and the
Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)) at their meeting on
February 22, 2006, awarded continuing accreditation of the education
program leading to the MD degree, with a follow-up limited survey which
occurred April 2007.
After reviewing the report of the survey
team, the LCME and CACMS voted to continue accreditation of the
education program leading to the MD degree at Memorial University for
the balance of the prior term.
Dr. James Rourke, dean of medicine,
commented that he is very proud of the work that students, staff and
faculty have done to achieve this significant goal. “This reflects well
on the high quality of medical education provided at Memorial
University.”
In addition to continuing full
accreditation for the undergraduate curriculum, all specialty
postgraduate residency programs in the Faculty of Medicine are fully
approved by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and
the family medicine and family medicine/emergency medicine residency
programs are fully approved by the College of Family Physicians of
Canada. The next schedule for postgraduate accreditation is 2010.
Dr. Rourke noted another sign of the high
quality of Memorial’s medical graduates are the results of the 2006
Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part II, written in October
after the first year of postgraduate training. For the second time in
six years, Memorial graduates ranked first of the Canadian medical
schools in this exam.
Dr. Rourke said the Faculty of Medicine is
committed to continue its hard work on the undergraduate MD education
program curriculum and the postgraduate residency training programs and
will remain ahead of educational standards set by the licensing bodies
as they continue to evolve.
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