Newswise — Bethesda, MD - The Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME) has granted eight years’ reaccreditation to the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – the maximum available.
The school was the first U.S. medical school to be evaluated using the LCME’s new accreditation standards. The LCME describes its accreditation as “a voluntary, peer-reviewed process of quality assurance that determines whether the medical education program meets established standards. This process also fosters institutional and programmatic improvement. To achieve and maintain accreditation, a medical education program leading to the MD degree in the United States and Canada must meet the LCME accreditation standards contained in the LCME document, ‘Functions and Structure of a Medical School.’ Programs are required to demonstrate that their graduates exhibit general professional competencies that are appropriate for entry to the next stage of their training and that serve as the foundation for lifelong learning and proficient medical care.”
LCME accreditation is also a condition for licensure of most U.S. medical school graduates and a prerequisite for graduate medical education training.
“This award of the maximum reaccreditation is particularly noteworthy because this came on the heels of a major overhaul of our medical school curriculum,” said USU President Charles L. Rice, M.D. “It is the result of phenomenal effort by the entire faculty and staff and, as always, it is our students and alumni who are living proof of the high quality education offered in the School of Medicine.”
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About the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, founded by an act of Congress in 1972, is the nation’s federal health sciences university and the academic heart of the Military Health System. USU students are primarily active duty uniformed officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service who receive specialized education in tropical and infectious diseases, TBI and PTSD, disaster response and humanitarian assistance, global health, and acute trauma care. A large percentage of the university’s more than 5,200 physician and 1,000 advanced practice nursing alumni are supporting operations around the world, offering their leadership and expertise. USU also has graduate programs in biomedical sciences and public health committed to excellence in research, and in oral biology. The University's research program covers a wide range of clinical and other topics important to both the military and public health. For more information about USU and its programs, visit www.usuhs.edu.
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