Accreditation program, objectives

Accreditation. This objective can be useful to serve as an element of a possibly mandated safety management review/accreditation program. 

The mission of the Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Residency Board is to establish and apply standards for accreditation of pharmacy practice residency programs and to promote excellence in hospital pharmacy residency programs and practice. The key objectives are as follows ... 

Activity of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) over many years resulted in the arrangements made with ABET to accredit safety science degree programs that met ABET requirements. It is a mark of status and recognition for a university to meet those requirements and obtain accreditation. An audit team visits the school for the initial accreditation and on a 5-year schedule thereafter if continued certification is sought. Recommendations are made by the audit team, if necessary, for continuous improvement in the curriculum and the educational objectives for the program. 

With the new outcomes-oriented ABET EC 2000 Accreditation Criteria (Table 1 summarizes key criteria related to the present discussion), each program is required to define detailed educational objectives, a curriculum to achieve them, and a system to demonstrate achievement of these objectives. It is required that program constituents be engaged in developing and evaluating the educational objectives. 

Beginniiig with the 2001—2002 accreditation cycle, instead of the humanities and social sciences requirement, ABET specifies the inclusion of a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institution objectives. 

Beginning with the 2001-2002 accreditation cycle, ABET requires that engineering programs have in place detailed published educational objectives, a curriculum, and processes that assure the achievement of those objectives, including a system of evaluation and assessment. ABET requires that each engineering program demonstrate that their graduates have ... 

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