The seminar has been organised with the aim of enhancing the expertise of experts in the accreditation of higher and postgraduate education institutions and their educational programmes (at the levels of basic medical education, residency, master’s and PhD programmes).
The training programme also excluded topics relating to the capacity-building of staff at medical education institutions in the field of quality assurance, based on international European principles and standards for the quality of higher professional education. The following topics were discussed: analysis of the self-assessment report, the external evaluation procedure, the formulation of questions for the experts, the structure and preparation of the expert commission's report, and approaches to developing recommendations for improvement.
The seminar was conducted in an interactive format (work in small groups, an ‘expert commission’ focus group, discussions, an ‘open floor’ session, etc.). Forty-eight experts took part – faculty members and staff from the S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Caspian University, KMU “KSPH”, Kazakh-Russian Medical University, and research centres and institutes in Almaty. The seminar was held in accordance with the Programme for the training and competence development of experts in conducting external quality assurance of education in the ECAQA.
