The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates: global efforts in graduate medical education
作者:
Magdalena Miranda,
期刊:
Medical Education
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 29,
issue 1
页码: 103-106
ISSN:0737-3805
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1995.tb02906.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SUMMARYIn addition to its certification programme, which assesses the readiness of foreign medical graduates to enter graduate medical education programmes in the USA, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is involved in a number of other programmes in international medical education. These include: (1) continuing to provide sponsorship for exchange visitors in graduate medical education programmes in the USA; (2) the development of a clinical skills assessment that is currently being introduced in pilot projects in the USA and abroad and will eventually become a component of theecfmgcertification process; (3) funding and administration of two fellowship programmes that provide foreign scholars (clinicians and basic scientists) with the opportunity to spend up to one year in a US medical school; (4) collaboration with the World Health Organization on the upcoming revised edition of theWorld Directory of Medical Schools; and (5) co‐sponsorship, with the World Health Organization, of a consultation on quality medical education oriented towards attaining a global consensus on the definition and the elements of quality in medical education and on the most appropriate ways to evaluate qualit
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