As a health professional you will have the opportunity to influence the future of your own profession, perhaps the future of other health professions, and most certainly the accreditation process.  MacKinney provides a framework for us to think about the future.

SESSION OUTLINE

I. Major Issues in Accreditation

• Audience

• Control

• Who pays

• Cost

• Model or approach

• Role of Government

• Voluntary nature

• Level/scope

• Proliferation

II. Myths of Accreditation

• Voluntary

• Empirical

• Valid

• Non-governmental, self regulation

• Quality Assurance

• Reputational Model

• Publications

• Perception

• History

• Resource Model

 
• Resource history

• Kinds of resources

• People

• Physical

• Fiscal

• Process Model

 
• Do the right things

• Doing things right

• Output Model

• Outcomes

• Research methods

• Graduates

• Combination Model

 
• Eclectic

• Self evaluation

• Reduced scope

• Levels of accreditation

• Government accreditation

• The present system

The discussion will continue on the process and substance of accreditation.  Change will occur but it will be slow and more evolutionary than revolutionary.