On 3-4 October 2018, the ECAQA External Expert Committee visited the Corporate Foundation "University Medical Center" of Nazarbayev University within the framework of the institutional accreditation of the Foundation.

The EEC included the Chairperson Almagul Bolatovna Kuzgibekova (Professor of Karaganda State Medical University, Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan); the EEC members: Professor Geneviève Moineau, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC), President and CEO of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), Senior Advisor of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME); Rafail Iosifovich Rozenson, DMSc, Correspondent Member of the International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology, Professor of the Department of Astana Medical University; Tayrkhan Bekpolatovich Dautov, DMSc, Vice-President of the Radiological Society of Kazakhstan, Chief external specialist in Radiation Diagnostics of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Head of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the National Research Cardiac Surgery Center; Zhandos Mukhtarovich Tuygynov, a Fourth-Year Resident in “Neurosurgery, including Pediatric Neurosurgery” of JSC "National Centre for Neurosurgery".

The ECAQA Observer was Saule Sergaziyevna Sarsenbayeva, DMSc, Professor, MBA.