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Join us for an insightful webinar series exploring the ins and outs of the WFME BME Recognition of Accreditation Programme. Each of the four webinars will be led by experts with direct experience with the Programme and will provide a practical guide to procedures and processes in the BME Recognition of Accreditation Programme, while emphasising the respect to contextualisation.
Attendees will have the opportunity to engage actively by chatting with others and posing questions. Participants will also receive certificates of participation to recognise their involvement. Additionally, attendees will benefit from access to recordings of the webinars, ensuring valuable information is readily available for reference and further study.
In this webinar, don’t miss this invaluable opportunity to meet and learn from the following speakers:
Professor David Gordon, UK, WFME Past President
Ms Jana Cohlová, CZ, WFME Recognition Programme Project Manager
We will look closely at the history and development of the programme, learn why it is important to recognise accreditors, and explain the process of recognition step by step.
Highlights of the webinar series:
Price:
Attendees can sign up either for individual webinars or for the entire series.
In case online card payment is not suitable for you, please contact us at bme.recognition@wfme.org with your billing information and we will issue an invoice.
The entire series offers the following four webinars:
1 | From Your First Question towards Achieving the Recognition Status: BME Recognition Programme Process | RECORDING AVAILABLE
Guest speaker: Professor David Gordon, WFME Past President, United Kingdom
Moderator: Jana Cohlová, WFME BME Recognition Programme Manager
2 | Navigating the Updated WFME Recognition Criteria: Key Changes and Insights | Wednesday 19 March 2025, 01:00 – 02:00 PM UTC
Guest speaker: Dr Marta van Zanten, Senior Director at FAIMER Research, United States
Moderator: Barbora Hrabalová
3 | Good Habits, Dos and Innovative Processes | Wednesday 23 April 2025, 03:00 – 04:00 PM UTC
Guest speakers:
Professor M. Ian Bowmer, Canada
Professor Shadi Hamouri, Jordan
Dr Tamar Sanikidze, Georgia
Dr Mokshada Sharma, Uzbekistan and India
Wambui Wang’ombe, Kenya
4 | Learn from Experience Shared by the WFME-Recognised Agencies: Best Practice in Local Context | Tuesday 13 May 2025, 12:00 – 01:00 PM UTC
Guest speakers:
Dr Lisa Graves, Secretary, CACMS, Canada
Claudine LeQuellec, Accreditation Manager, CACMS, Canada
Professor Yusra AR Mahmood, President, NCAMC, Iraq
Mr Ricardo Palo, Executive Director, PAASCU, Philippines
Detailed agenda can be found on pages of individual webinars.
Background:
Launched in 2012, the BME Recognition Programme delivers an independent, transparent and rigorous method of ensuring that accreditation of medical schools worldwide is at an internationally accepted and high standard. WFME evaluates compliance of accrediting agencies with pre-defined recognition criteria. Through the process of recognition – self-evaluation and feedback from the expert visiting teams – WFME shares best practice and provides quality improvement measures. Recognition Status is the indicator to the medical education community, to students and to employers that the quality of medical education in schools or programmes accredited by that agency is to an appropriate and rigorous standard.
Target audience:
This webinar series aims to engage anyone interested in the field of basic medical education and its accreditation and WFME recognition, including:
Professor David Gordon FRCP FMedSci joined the staff of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) in 2007, and was President of WFME from January 2015 to December 2022. He is emeritus professor of medicine and former dean of the medical faculty at the University of Manchester. Professor Gordon was Chair of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools of the UK, and President of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe. He holds visiting appointments at a number of universities.
Jana Cohlová joined WFME in 2021. Her role is in the management of the WFME Recognition Programme, and also includes support for the Risk Committee and the WFME office. She sometimes joins the WFME Recognition Teams.
She studied at the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, majoring in International Trade. Before joining WFME, she worked for the Social Health Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, as a project associate. She has also been running her own freelance translation and interpreting business for almost 20 years.
She is based in the Czech Republic.
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