Accreditation Commission of Colleges of Medicine

The Accreditation Commission on Colleges of Medicine (ACCM) is an international medical review and accreditation agency service for medical schools.[1]

The National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA), part of the United States Department of Education, has listed ACCM as "found to use standards to accredit their medical schools that are comparable to the standards used to accredit medical schools in the United States."[1]

In 2017 ACCM was granted a 10-year recognition by the World Federation on Medical Education (WFME)[2]

The ACCM works on behalf of the governments in relation to medical school standards in the following Caribbean countries and one middle Eastern country and according to its site there is only one ACCM accredited medical school in each of the countries:.[3]

Country School First accredited Current status
Curacao Avalon University School of Medicine 2019 Accredited until May 31, 2022
Commonwealth of Dominica All Saints University School of Medicine 2019 Accredited until May 31, 2022
Aruba Xavier University School of Medicine 2015 Accredited until May 31, 2025
Anguilla, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint James School of Medicine 2019 Accredited until May 31, 2022
Cayman Islands St. Matthew's University 2001 Accredited until June 30, 2025
Nevis Medical University of the Americas 2007 Accredited until May 31, 2022
Saint Kitts University of Medicine and Health Sciences 2015 Accredited until May 31, 2021, and extended due to Covid to Nov 30, 2021
Saint Maarten American University of the Caribbean 1995 Accredited until December 31, 2021
Jordan Medical Programme at the University of Jordan 2016 Accredited until May 31, 2022

As of 2020, various schools (Aureus University School of Medicine in Aruba, Arabian Gulf University (AGU) in Bahrain and Jordan University of Science & Technology in Jordan) were pending onsite full accreditation inspection which would be schedule after travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 global pandemic were removed.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA)". U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Recognition Programme - World Federation For Medical Education".
  3. ↑ "ACCM Accredited Schools/". Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Annual Report 2020" (PDF). ACCM.


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