Date: 7/2/2009

Accreditation is a peer review process designed to attest to the educational quality of new and established educational programmes. The St. Christopher (St. Kitts) & Nevis Accreditation Board is established to accredit tertiary level education programmes in St Kitts & Nevis. These include programmes leading to MB.BS/M.D. degrees. By judging the compliance of medical education programmes with national and internationally accepted standards of educational quality, this accrediting body serves the interests of the general public in the Federation of St Kitts & Nevis and the interest of the students enrolled in the programmes of the schools. The Accreditation reports are intended to attest to registration bodies (local, regional and international) as well as education institutions the quality of the programmes offered by the participating institutions.

To achieve and maintain accreditation, medical education programmes must meet the
standards portrayed in this document. The standards are provided in both a narrative format (Part 1) that illustrates how standards relate to each other, and in a list format (Part 2) that allows the inclusion of explanatory annotations to clarify the operational meaning of standards when necessary. The standards deal with the following areas:

1. The Institutional Setting


2. The Students


3. Education Programmes


4. The Faculty


5. Educational Resources, and


6. Internships

These standards have been compiled using the standards complied within the region, the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine(CAAM), the standards of the General Medical Council of Great Britain (GMC), as well as those of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) of the United States and Canada and the New York State Education Department (NYSED). The CAAM has given permission to the accreditation body to use the format for adaptation of their document .