Current Status of Accreditation of Medical Education: A Systematic Review

Medical education accreditation has taken up an enormous place in worldly perspective and India is not far away from embracing it wholeheartedly. In the same direction, we undertook an extensive systematic literature search to identify all existing relevant studies in area of quality centricity, requirements, standards, criteria, accrediting bodies at national and international level as per relevance of present study taking their stipulations into account. We searched Medline (PubMed) and Google Scholar on 24th December 2021. The search strategy for Medline database through PubMed search engine was as follows with keywords and unique identifiers generated by the PubMed database.(((((((quality centricity) AND (y_5[Filter]))) AND (((accreditation) AND (y_5[Filter])))) AND (((accreditation standards) AND (y_5[Filter])))) AND (((NAAC) AND (y_5[Filter])))) OR (((WFME) AND (y_5[Filter])))) OR (((LCME) AND (y_5[Filter]))) with filters applied: in the last 5 years for updated and recent literature for decipherance of trends. We identified 120 records through database searches. There were 52 additional records which were identified through other sources i.e., literature search, cross references, expert consultation etc. We retrieved 172 articles after removal of duplicates. These records were duly screened and assessed for eligibility. Thirty-five articles were eligible for inclusion whereas, 137 records were excluded. Amongst these 35 records, we excluded 26 more articles due to various reasons like not matching inclusion/exclusion criteria etc. Finally, 9 studies were included. The review of literature spans over multiple aspects of medical education and accreditation along with curricular reforms and challenges encountered in bringing about or executing these reforms. We undertook an extensive systematic literature search to identify all the existing relevant studies in the area of quality centricity, requirements, standards, criteria, accrediting bodies at national and international level as per relevance of the present study taking their stipulations into account. We searched Medline (PubMed) and Google Scholar on 24th December 2021. The search strategy for Medline database through PubMed search engine was as follows with keywords as well as unique identifiers generated by the PubMed database for the said search strategy.(((((((quality centricity) AND (y_5[Filter]))) AND (((accreditation) AND (y_5[Filter])))) AND (((accreditation standards) AND (y_5[Filter])))) AND (((NAAC) AND (y_5[Filter])))) OR (((WFME) AND (y_5[Filter])))) OR (((LCME) AND (y_5[Filter]))) ID – unique identifiers for PubMed database generated by the database itself. Filters: in the last 5 years (For updated and recent literature for trend decipherance).