Once registered, caregivers fill out their profiles with information about their specialties, work experiences, accreditations, locations, and contact methods.
Experts say the failure of accrediting bodies to withdraw certification speaks to the basic financial arrangements at work: Revoking accreditation reduces the number of schools to monitor, and that reduces the fees the accreditors can collect.
Regardless, visiting correspondents such as Greste – who arrived in Egypt only a fortnight before his arrest – were told to enter on tourist visas and to work without accreditation.
Throughout Egypt's post-revolutionary period, political upheaval and sclerotic bureaucracy has sometimes forced visiting journalists to work without accreditation for short periods.
"We set up the process for accrediting the reformed qualifications so that there was enough time to enable its timely completion and to allow enough time for necessary work post accreditation.
TAPPS is entirely voluntary, but supervisors who take part do work toward accreditation by submitting a portfolio of written evidence to one internal and one external assessor trained and appointed by the TAPPS committee.
Finally, the pan Canadian work on accreditation and the issue of IHD in postgraduate medical education was being increasingly recognized [ 32].
Australia has introduced a bonus program recognizing general practices that provide comprehensive, quality care, and that are either accredited or working towards accreditation [ 21].
Massive Online Open Course platform Coursera is working with accreditation standards institution American Council on Education to evaluate whether its online classes are sufficient for the kinds of college credit awarded in Advanced Placement courses.
Finally, an interesting and important discussion issue is whether our goal is to provide comprehensive guidelines for small-animal PET and SPECT imaging, or whether it is worthwhile to move a step further, and work on an accreditation programme of scanners and procedure along the lines of, for instance, the accreditation for human FDG-PET as set up by EARL (see http://earl.eanm.org).org
