RCSI setting the standard in medical education

During the presentation, Associate Professor MacCarrick commended RCSI for its commitment to quality improvement and its efforts to deliver a quality medical program at all campuses including MUB. In particular she commended the School for embracing the World Federation For Medical Education (WFME) Global Standards for Quality Improvement in Medical Education.

Associate Professor MacCarrick described recent experience securing full accreditation of an Australian medical school using the Australian Medical Council Standards (based on WFME standards) and described the results of the extensive external quality assurance process at RCSI led by Dame Lesley Southgate, former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners in late 2005 using the WFME standards. She also described recent developments in medication education at RCSI and expanded on the proposed undertaking to reach full compliance with these global standards, with the next review visit by an international panel scheduled for November 2008.

Although recognising the work still to be done to achieve excellence in all nine of the WFME standards, Associate Professor MacCarrick acknowledged RCSI as a leader in the field by embracing these global standards 'We are establishing sound processes to ensure this happens'' she said ''I have been singularly impressed by RCSI and its people and their commitment to continual improvement.'