— this week attained accreditation from the group that verifies the quality of non-collegiate, continuing education and professional training programs throughout the United States for the U.S. Department of Education, the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education.
It was considered achievable but would take commitment and hard work to overcome the numerous challenges and to 'climb the mountain' towards attaining BFHI accreditation.
Worldwide, over 20,000 health facilities have attained BFHI accreditation but only 77 Australian hospitals (approximately 23%) have received accreditation.
The SPH applied for and attained CEO Cancer Gold Standard accreditation in December 2013, thereby becoming the first school of public health in Texas to earn accreditation.
As of January 2014, 11 such programs had attained CAMPEP accreditation.
The inquiry has since recommended that the trials resume after the trial administrators dealt with the reporting issues and attain site accreditation.
There were, however, differing interpretations of what was required to attain BFHI accreditation with the potential that misinterpretation could hinder implementation.
All of these studies mentioned above similarly report that health information on websites varies in quality, and recommend that websites should attain independent accreditations.
It was felt that a quality improvement project was required to (a) ensure fair, consistent, transparent evaluations of residents from multiple sources; and, (b) attain and retain accreditation from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
But conventional donor practice still places a strong emphasis on academic qualifications, and attaining professional qualifications linked to international accreditation facilitates mobility between local and international work.
But attaining the key higher education benchmark of regional accreditation -- and the federal student aid dollars that come with it -- is a difficult process for a school starting from scratch.
