The Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), ensures that Canadian medical faculties’ MD programs meet the quality expected when producing tomorrow’s doctors. Medical schools demonstrating compliance are afforded accreditation, a necessary condition for a program’s graduates to be licensed as physicians.
Accreditation is a process by which institutions and programs voluntarily undergo an extensive peer evaluation of their compliance with accepted standards for educational quality. Through accreditation, the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) provides assurance to medical students, graduates, the medical profession, healthcare institutions, health authorities, regulatory authorities and the public that
- educational programs culminating in the award of the M.D. degree meet reasonable, generally accepted, and appropriate national standards for educational quality, and
- graduates of such programs have a complete and valid educational experience sufficient to prepare them for the next stage of their training.
– Excerpt from CACMS Website
CMU and Accreditation
The UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee has approved the implementation of the Educational Activity Form (EAF) to facilitate the continued process of collecting curricular information. To learn more about the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), please visit the FoM Accreditation page.