Office of Medical Accreditation

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences was granted full re-accreditation by the LCME in October 2022. Accreditation will last through 2030.

Through a process of continuous quality assurance, the Office of Medical Accreditation (OMA) strives to meet the expectations of the standards as set by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in order for the UND SMHS medical program to achieve reaccreditation and to improve the education of its medical students.

Primarily through the work of its three subcommittees - the Student Accreditation Standards Review Committee (SASRC), Education Accreditation Standards Review Committee (EASRC), and Faculty Accreditation Standards Review Committee (FASRC) - OMA collaborates with the Dean’s Quality Improvement Group (DQIP) and the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee (UMEC) to identify areas that may require improvement and assists those groups in ongoing quality improvement efforts.

Timeline & Dates

The relevant dates and a timeline for the 2021-22 LCME accreditation process at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Message from Dean Joshua Wynne, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.

Resources

• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)
• LCME Publications

Recommended Reading

• Read the standards and elements in “Functions and Structure of a Medical School” (published March 2020).

• Learn more about the Independent Student Analysis (ISA) “The Role of Students in the Accreditation of U.S. Medical Education Programs for Full Accreditation” (published January 2021).

  Read about the new Institutional Self-Study (ISS) process: “Guide to the Development of the Institutional Self-study Summary Report for Full Accreditation (published January 2021).

  The Data Collection Instrument (DCI) template for our accreditation visit year “DCI for Full Accreditation surveys” (published January 2021).