Pakistan
Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
http://www.hec.gov.pk/Pages/main.aspx
Duration and levels of accreditation
Accreditation standards
Evaluation process
Outcome/consequences of accreditation
Mandatory
Description of accreditation organization
Government Authority
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council
Duration and levels of accreditation
Full (5 years); Provisional
Accreditation standards
- Space: ownership, possession, and plan of academic blocks.
- Infrastructure: adequate physical facilities for academic blocks, dissection halls, laboratories, libraries.
- Financial resources: resources should be clearly indicated according to level, size, and type of institution, sufficient to not only establish but run a progressive medical college.
- Fulfillment of all legal requirements.
- Organizational structure/faculty: faculty should be employed full-time and fulfill qualification requirements of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.
- Transport facilities: adequate transportation facilities for students, teachers, and staff, based on location of institution, number of students, etc.
- Library: should have sufficient number of books, including latest editions of reference works.
- Attached teaching hospital.
- Affiliation: with a university with an existing medical faculty in the same province as the medical college seeking recognition.
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Evaluation process
Feasibility report, eight site visits
Outcome/consequences of accreditation
Mandatory
Description of accreditation organization
Independent Entity