Exploring the Role of Accreditation in Enhancing Quality and Innovation in Health Professions Education Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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4 Engaging New Partners in Accreditation
4 Engaging New Partners in Accreditation
Pages 57-78
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(MacDonell) • Accreditation can stimulate innovative models, and One Health accreditation can be part of this.
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. The mission of CARF is to promote quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process and continuous improvement services that center on enhancing the lives of persons served.
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Persons served are the primary consumers of services, and include clients, participants, residents, patients, and inmates, since CARF also works within the correctional system. Persons served can also be interpreted as those persons willing, able, and legally authorized to make decisions on behalf of the primary consumer.
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Her stakeholders summarized their thoughts by expressing a desire for health professional graduates to enter the workforce ready to learn from those they serve to make sure their competencies continuously increase. To make her point, MacDonell described a typical rehabilitation setting where the client-driven outcome is not based on the intervention of one individual health provider but the
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MacDonell emphasized the importance of letting go of ego in order to learn from those who have gone through the services. Incorporating Input from Persons Served Going back to her opening remarks of developing a patient-centered education framework for accreditation, Regan asked MacDonell if she could elaborate on how to get input from the persons served within the areas of quality and accountability.
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The first strongly endorsed the use of the word person and the need to change the medical lexicon to reflect the thinking behind using it to describe those served by health providers. The second from David Benton at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
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" INNOVATIVE MODELS OF ACCREDITATION: VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ONE HEALTH ACCREDITATION ACROSS NATIONS AND SECTORS Deborah Kochevar of Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) moderated a panel focusing on One Health accreditation.
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He convenes, coordinates, and creates innovative programs, and is the principal investigator for One Health Central and Eastern Africa. Veterinary Medicine: Council on Education, International Accreditors Working Group, and the World Organization for Animal Health Working Group on Veterinary Education Beth Sabin, American Veterinary Medical Association During her presentation, Beth Sabin explained the evolution of the AVMA Council on Education accreditation standards.
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state boards, and five veterinary schools in Canada use Council on Education accreditation as a means for identifying individuals eligible for licensure. There are 11 standards, and one of the standards is on outcomes assessment (see Box 4-1)
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The International Accreditors Working Group In the late 1990s, the Council on Education and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the United Kingdom began to hold regular meetings. In the early 2000s, the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council, the accrediting body in Australia and New Zealand, the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education, and the South African Veterinary Council began to come to these meetings as well.
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. Subsequent IAWG meetings recommended the now established protocol for Council on Education, Australasian Veterinary Boards Council, and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons joint site visits at schools accredited by one or more of these accreditors.7 To summarize, Sabin explained that these joint site visits include a single, combined site team with co-leaders, onsite training.
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Creating the One Health Professional: Lessons from a Multilingual, Multicultural Setting Stuart Reid, Royal Veterinary College, London The One Health concept, said Stuart Reid, has been in existence for some time, but it is not evident how to accredit the new One Health professional in the current environment. Because of the diversity of One Health and its global scope, One Health brings forth the challenges of environment, context, and language.
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If there is no career progression and no career framework, then there will not be a meaningful accreditation system for a One Health professional since effectively there will be no profession in existence, he said. Finally, Reid believes there must be a single language used for an accreditation system.
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The One Health approach, he said, is integrated and is beneficial to multiple health professionals. The challenges faced by One Health can be overcome through collaboration among multiple professionals.
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Bazeyo lauded veterinarians and medics for their extensive knowledge and understanding of disease processes and epidemiology. These health professionals also have experience diagnosing and managing diseases in large populations, both across Europe and across Africa.
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For moving the One Health accreditation standard forward, Bazeyo envisions developing centers of excellence for education and training in specific areas. Enhanced collaboration among colleges and schools of veterinary medicine, human medicine, public health, and allied health sciences might lead them to embrace agreed-upon standards for recognition and a ccreditation.
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There has been a significant amount of dialogue between the schools and the accreditors. The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)
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There is an opportunity, said Reid, for the framework B enton mentioned to become much more relevant than it is currently. Building the One Health Movement Eric Holmboe from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education commented that One Health fits naturally with the Triple Aim, where the health of the populations is a primary driver.
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Many of the veterinary schools in the United States, said Sabin, are colocated with medical schools or other health professional schools. In these instances, they can incorporate problem-based learning and case scenarios that are One Health related.
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REFERENCES AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association)
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http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/ document_uploads/KSF/NHS_KSF_Document.pdf (accessed September 29, 2016)
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