HMC achieves institutional reaccreditation; ACGME accreditation for two new programs

Doha: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar’s largest academic health organization, has been reaccredited by the international body of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME-I) as a sponsoring institution. This international accolade signifies that HMC is an institution that hosts residency and fellowship programs based on very high standards.

Along with the institutional reaccreditation, HMC also had two new training programs accredited by ACGME-I. The Neurosurgery Residency program and Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Fellowship program have demonstrated that they meet established international standards for Institutional, Foundational, and Advanced specialty education. The newly accredited programs now join the 14 existing residency and nine fellowship training programs that have already successfully achieved ACGME International LLC program accreditation. Dr. Abdullatif Al Khal, Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Medical Education at HMC said that this achievement underpins the organization’s commitment to delivering exceptionally high standards of professional education: “Qatar was the first country in the region to achieve the ACGME-I institutional accreditation in 2012, which laid the foundation for individual program accreditation. By helping to improve the quality of our teaching practices, encouraging scientific research and enhancing our professional medical education practice, we are upholding the principle of accreditation designed to benefit patients and the public as well as protect the interests and the wellbeing of medical residents.”