On May 20-22, 2022, ECAQA Director General S.S. Sarsenbayeva, MD, DMedSc, Professor, and ECAQA Adviser F.N. Nurmanbetova, MD, DMedSc, Senior Adviser and Certified Assessor of the World Federation for Medical Education, visited Dushanbe (Republic of Tajikistan) and met with the Director of the Agency for Supervision in the Field of Education and Science under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Ikrom Subkhon Subkhonzoda and representatives of medical universities and colleges of the country.
The workshop focused on opportunities and prospects for accreditation of educational organisations and educational programmes and the role of accreditation in improving the quality of higher professional education in health care. The workshop presented global experience in accreditation and the role of the World Federation for Medical Education in providing effective tools (standards) for quality assurance at all levels of medical education.
The Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) has all the resources and technologies for international institutional and specialized (programme) accreditation, as it has taken into account best international practice in accreditation of medical, pharmaceutical and nursing education upon ECAQA’s establishment.
Led by experienced experts in accreditation and current healthcare professionals, ECAQA demonstrates a commitment to transferring good practice in medical and pharmaceutical education accreditation to CIS countries, as well as a professional approach to all stages of the evaluation process.
The Agency for Supervision in the Field of Education and Science under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan is the only authorized body of state administration and implementation of state policy in quality control of education, which provides foreign accrediting agencies with the authority to conduct international accreditation of educational institutions and programmes of the Republic of Tajikistan.
During the visit to Dushanbe, the Republican Medical College was attended.