Advanced Level Course on Program Evaluation in Health Professions Education - The Aga Khan University

1. PROS AND CONS OF
WORLD FEDERATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION (WFME)
STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING AN ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Advanced Level Course on Program Evaluation in Health Professions Education (HPE)
Department of Educational Development (DED)
The Aga Khan University (AKU)
GROUP D (Dr. Aqsa Naseer, Dr. Asiyah Aman, Dr. Faria Khan, Dr. Hameed Ullah, Dr. Heena Rais,
Dr. Jibran Mohsin)

2. WFME EVOLUTION
Founded by WHO and WMA —------1972 in Copenhagen.
Edinburg declaration approval—----------1988 in World Conference on Medical Education
Adopted by World health Assembly—-------1993
Launched programme on International Standards in Medical Education—1998
WFME Standards first edition—------------- 2003 (Post graduate Medical Education).
Continuous Professional Development Standards—------------------2015
Basic Medical Education Standards—--------------------------2020

3. BACKGROUND
WFME recommend use of standards for
institutions responsible for medical education to
• Provide Framework for curriculum development.
• Formulate quality improvement plans.
• Establish system of evaluation/accreditation.
• Safeguard practice/medical manpower utilisation to
medicine.

4. AREAS OF
WFME
STANDARDS
• Mission and Outcomes
• Educational Programme
• Assessment of Students
• Students
• Academic Staff/Faculty
• Educational Resources
• Programme Evaluation
• Governance and Administration
• Continuous renewal

5. PROS OF WFME STANDARDS
1. Demonstrate high degree of equivalence of structure, process and
product of medical schools worldwide.
2. Explicitly identified for basic , postgraduate and continued medical
education.
3. Provide room of modification/expansion according to regional,national
and institutional context to emphasize diverse educational program.
4. Quality assurance through self evaluation ,peer review/external
evaluation ,combination of both.

6. PROS OF WFME STANDARDS
5. Promote exchange of medical students worldwide.
6. Decrease Burden of judging doctors graduated from different countries.
6. Provide basis of broader recognition/accreditation by adapting internationally
accepted standards.
7. Continuous renewal process reflect dynamic process.
8. Division of area, subarea, standard (basic and quality improvement) make it user
friendly.

7. CONS OF WFME
1. Details regarding content and quantity are lacking.
2. Cost effectiveness issue for low-middle income countries.
3. Not applicable in every setting.
4. Lack of common relevance/disregard of local difference.
5. Compliance issue of institution, countries, regions all over the world.
6. Interference with autonomy/sense of control.
7. Risk of conformity.
8. Equation of global and western.

8. References

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