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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:
Dr Marta van Zanten, USA, Senior Director at FAIMER Research
Barbora Hrabalová, CZ
Join us for an insightful webinar where we will introduce and discuss the updated WFME Recognition Criteria, which have been revised for the first time since 2019. This revision process, initiated in spring 2023, incorporates feedback and lessons learned over the past four years from various stakeholders, including WFME-recognized agencies, recognition assessors, the Recognition Committee, and members of the Executive Council. These changes took effect on 1 January 2025 to newly applying agencies and those seeking renewal of Recognition Status after this date.
Key Updates Include:
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about these important updates to the WFME Recognition Criteria.
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 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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:
Dr. Marta van Zanten is Senior Director at FAIMER, a division of Intealth, where she is involved in various initiatives supporting FAIMER’s mission, including research on quality assurance processes of international medical schools, the impact of accreditation on student and graduate outcomes, and the role of international medical graduates (IMGs) in the U.S. workforce. Dr. van Zanten played a key role in the initial implementation of the WFME Recognition Programme and remains actively engaged in related research and ongoing improvements.
Barbora Hrabalová joined the WFME office in Ferney-Voltaire in July 2017 as Project Coordinator. She has a BA in Journalism and an MA in English Philology from the Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic and specialises in media and communication. Before joining the organisation full-time, she worked as an intern at the WFME office.
In her work at the WFME she mainly focuses on the World Directory of Medical Schools, and provides office support for the Recognition of Accreditation Programme. Occasionally, she acts as a Team Secretary for WFME Recognition Visits.
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