ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION

The acgme does not provide consulting services in the united states. Outside the u.s., acgme global services offers customized advisory services to help governments and institutions optimize their postgraduate medical education (pgme) to deliver better health outcomes and safety to their populations. Clients may include ministries of health or equivalent governmental organizations, regional organizations involved with health professional education, and hospitals or hospital groups interested in starting pgme programs. The acgme assists its global clients develop pgme standards and systems to evaluate and accredit programs and their sponsoring institutions against these standards which are consistent with international best practices. It also provides infrastructure support to national and regional pgme accreditation organizations, including data collection, management, and analysis, provides training programs for standards developers, program evaluators and accreditors, site visitors, and pgme faculty members, assist potential training centers prepare to host pgme programs, and conducts seminars on the latest developments in pgme.