January 8, 2025 held a Workshop for accreditation experts: “Roles and competencies of experts in the external evaluation of postgraduate education”.

The workshop was held in Al-Farabi KazNU, which was attended by 50 faculty of clinical departments of the University. Considered the issues of Quality Assurance of medical education, international principles and approaches to quality assessment of PGE, the process and procedures of accreditation.

Training included the updated Standards for Quality Improvement of PGE of the WFME 2023 and the new Standards for Residency Programme Accreditation of the ECAQA. We worked on the Standards in small groups. Learned to analyze the residency programme Self-evaluation Report, plan external evaluation, identify the most effective activities of the site visit, look for evidence of compliance with Standards, formulate expert questions, etc.

At the end of the workshop, all participants received Certificates. Thus, expanding the pool of ECAQA experts.