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Time for Accreditation
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Time for Accreditation
Does anyone else here think it is time for the IMA to form an accreditation committee to start bringing a new frontier to Honest Medicine by certifying fields of study, specialties in medicine, education, research, and any number of other programs in the medical realm? Why should the AMA be the only legitimate source of accreditation in this field? Wouldn’t this be a boost to the reputation of IMA in the medical world to demonstrate their role as a leading voice toward Honest Medicine? Who is with me on this subject?
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@vegandan this sounds intriguing and exciting. Could you unpack your vision a bit more, perhaps into problem statement(s)?
To formulate the path forward, the best I can do is draw on analogy and example of the formation of a new governing body that I remember in SCUBA diving. The problem was there was a concern for diver safety and there was a group of highly technical divers from the cave diving community. They wanted to help the diving community by sharing their expert knowledge and an alternative way of thinking, and they formed a new set of training and certification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Underwater_Explorers .
The analogy I see here is we have a group of individuals in the health industry with expert knowledge and an alternative way of thinking and there is a problem and concern in public health. We want to move towards codifying… etc.
I just watched “In the Shadow of Flexner” and the Flexner Report does illustrate a path forward by the act of first writing a report and making assertions. We need a new report 😉
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