The Heersink School of Medicine has achieved 8 years of accreditation — the highest level disposable for aesculapian schools crossed the U.S. — by the Liaison Committee connected Medical Education aft a rigorous two-year process.
Danielle Powell, M.D., subordinate prof successful the UAB Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, moving with a student.The University of Alabama astatine Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine has achieved the highest level of accreditation disposable to a aesculapian schoolhouse successful the United States by the Liaison Committee connected Medical Education aft a rigorous, two-year self-study process that culminated successful a virtual sojourn from the LCME survey squad earlier this spring.
In a missive sent to UAB President Ray L. Watts earlier this week, the LCME notified leaders of Heersink’s accreditation presumption — valid for 8 years.
“Earning afloat accreditation from the LCME is simply a tremendous accomplishment that highlights not lone excellence successful our aesculapian acquisition mission, but the unthinkable enactment of faculty, unit and students crossed the schoolhouse to spell done the reaccreditation process and hole for our virtual tract visit,” said Anupam Agarwal, M.D., interim elder vice president for Medicine and interim dean of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.
“I commend the efforts from these leaders crossed the school, and peculiarly the LCME Executive Committee, directed by module co-leads Cathy Fuller, Ph.D., and Gustavo Heudebert, M.D., overseeing each measurement of the process.”
Accreditation demonstrates that the Heersink School of Medicine has met and is maintaining precocious standards acceptable by the LCME, the nationally recognized authorization for accrediting aesculapian acquisition programs starring to the M.D. grade successful the United States and Canada.
“We are thrilled to perceive that the LCME has accredited the Heersink School of Medicine for the afloat eight-year term,” said module accreditation co-lead Cathy Fuller, Ph.D., prof successful the UAB Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology.
“This endorsement from the LCME is simply a testament not lone to the enactment of those straight progressive successful the LCME process implicit the past 2 years, but besides to everyone who contributes their time, expertise, passionateness and enactment to the aesculapian acquisition ngo of the school,” Fuller said. “This effect reaffirms our committedness to continuous betterment successful the acquisition of the adjacent procreation of physicians.”
The rigorous process toward reaccreditation began successful 2020 with the gathering of accusation for the school’s Data Collection Instrument, a database that was divided and work by members of the Self-Study Task Force. The task unit was charged to item organization strengths, place challenges and enactment distant solutions to code those challenges.
Student leaders besides conducted the Independent Student Analysis, a afloat student-led appraisal of the aesculapian school’s learning environment, acquisition program, resources, medication and services.
The process concluded with a virtual tract sojourn from an LCME reappraisal squad April 11-13, 2022.
“Maintaining our afloat LCME accreditation is simply a testament the enactment teams crossed the schoolhouse enactment into the process,” said Craig Hoesley, M.D., elder subordinate dean for Medical Education. “We took a agelong look astatine our instauration and began making changes successful areas wherever we felt we could turn to code our challenges, which is the full constituent of the accreditation process.”
“Full accreditation is besides a awesome to students and module that the Heersink School of Medicine provides aesculapian acquisition rivaling schools crossed the country,” Hoesley said.
Out of the 93 elements that were reviewed during the afloat process, the schoolhouse had 10 unsatisfactory findings and 2 satisfactory areas, successful request of monitoring. Full LCME findings, on with advancement notes connected our enactment and improvements frankincense far, are published connected the schoolhouse website astatine go.uab.edu/lcme.
UAB President, Ray L. Watts, M.D. — who served arsenic elder vice president of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine from 2010-2013 — maintains an progressive enactment relation guiding the Heersink School of Medicine with Agarwal.
“I americium arrogant to admit Dr. Agarwal and the talented and dedicated squad astatine the Heersink School of Medicine — existent and past — connected this important milestone,” Watts said. “While reaccreditation is not a astonishment fixed the unprecedented affirmative momentum crossed our mission, this is simply a important validation of the excellence and world-class aesculapian acquisition for which the schoolhouse of medicine is known.”
School leaders volition taxable a presumption study to LCME enactment successful 2024 to supply updates regarding the areas of concern. The adjacent afloat survey for reaccreditation for the School of Medicine volition instrumentality spot successful the 2029-2030 world year.
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