Leveraging Accreditation to Move Health Institutions Toward Social Accountability
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Social Accountability, Accreditation, Health EquityAbstract
Accreditation systems for professional education are not often seen as fertile ground for innovation and are often seen as bastions of stability and preservation of the status quo. By contrast, our project foregrounds accreditation as a progressive way to address the social, institutional, and educational issues that the Social Accountability “movement” is responding to. Building on the momentum gained by Social Accountability in the domain of health professional education, this article features initiatives that leverage accreditation to further the aims of Social Accountability. This opportunity crosses local and global axes, and although accreditation processes and norms vary widely from context to context, our work focuses on how it can be used as a positive lever for change in medical schools and other institutions in ways that both promote and align with Social Accountability.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Erin Cameron, PhD, Cynthia Larche, BScN, BSc, Maxwell Kennel, PhD, Robert Woollard, Charles Boelen, David Marsh (Author)
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