On April 29-30, 2019, the External EVALUATION Commission (EEC) of the ECAQA, within the framework of institutional accreditation, visited the International Education Centre YES implementing continuing education programmes (advanced training, short-term training, master classes, international training seminars).

is signed between the Non-profit Organization “Eurasian Сentre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care” (the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty) and the Autonomous non-profit organization “National Centre for Public Accreditation” (the Russian Federation, Yoshkar-Ola) https://ncpa.ru/

On April 26-27, 2019 EEC visited to Medical Academy Of Postgraduate Education to conduct an institutional accreditation. Chairman of the EEC Dina Karibaeva, PhD, Head of the Department of General Medical Practice of the National Medical University.

The 9th ENQA Members’ Forum, hosted by the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA), took place on 25-26 April 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia.

The Programme chaired by Christoph Grolimund, President of ENQA.

The participants of the ENQA Members’ Forum discussed the draft of ENQA’ Mission, Vision, Values and Strategic Plan and goals for 2021-2015 that focused on the 1) Representing interest of QA Agencies; 2) Providing services to Members; 3) Driving innovation in external QA.

The ENQA’ Members have shared their experience in the ENQA external review and participants identified the strengths, weakness, opportunity and threats of the ENAQ Agency Reviews and its usefulness to development and improvement the QAA.

ENQA Members’ Forum key-note speakers have presented the European University Initiatives and European Commission progress report on quality assurance in higher education; the large-scale changes in society and how to be prepared to the new role for university in the future.

ECAQA is ENQA Affiliate since 2017 and the agency has involved and actively participated at the ENQA international events. ECAQA has specified and adopted the ESG (2015) as well as the WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement in BME, PGME, CPD to the Kazakhstan Medical and Healthcare Professions Education.

WFME World Conference "Quality Assurance in Medical Education in 21^st Century” hosted by Korea University College of Medicine and Korean Council on Medical Education took place in Seoul on April 7-10, 2019.

More than 800 participants from 56 countries took part in the 2019 WFME World Conference.

Professor David Gordon, FRCP FMedSci, President of the World Federation for Medical Education has introduced the WFME’ international initiatives and its contribution as the organisation working to improve the quality of medical education in all parts of the world.

Key-note speakers from all parts of the world including the WFME advisors and assessors from the WFME Recognition of Accreditation programme; accreditation experts who have been successful in that programme; specialists in the development of standards for basic medical education; authorities on accreditation of postgraduate medical education and CPD have presented and discussed with the WFME’s world conference participants the following themes: Development of Accreditation and Recognition of Accreditation; Towards the Next Edition of the WFME Global Standards; Quality Enhancement, Standards and Accreditation in Postgraduate Medical Education; The Future of accreditation, Recognition and the ECFMG Programme; Experiences in the WFME Recognition programme and the key lessons learned; Medical Humanities and Ethics in the Curriculum - Standards and Best Practices; Social Accountability; A Critical Analysis; the Role of Students and their involvement in Accreditation Process.

Dr. Farida Nurmanbetova MD, DmedSc, has introduced the Kazakhstan Experience in Establishing and Modernization of the National Medical Education Accreditation System as well as the Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Education and Health Care (ECAQA)’ Strategy and Programme for Improvement Medical Education and other Healthcare Professional Education.

ECAQA as a Specialized Accreditor for Medical and Healthcare Professions Education aimed to ensure establishment transparent national quality assurance system through the introduction of the international principles of good practice in quality assurance in higher education based on the WHO/WFME Guidelines, ENQA/ESG2015, INQAAHE/GGP, APQN’Chiba Principles, CHEA/CIQG International Quality Principles2015.

On April 23-24, 2019 EEC visited to Kazakhstan-Russian Medical University to conduct a programme (Master's programs) accreditation. Chairman of the EEC Alfia Shamsutdinova, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Innovation and Education of the Central Clinical Hospital (Almaty). Foreign expert - Andrei Rudoy, MD, Doc of MS, Professor, Head of the Department of Military Field Therapy, Belarusian State Medical University.