How Accreditation Works

Facts about the Accreditation Process

• A poor Accreditation status can be the best way to improve your program.
• A resident would never lose their position as a result of Accreditation. Provisional approval will NOT affect your ITERs and has no bearing on your FITER.
• The single most critical "zero-tolerance" issue in Accreditation is intimidation and harassment.
• Accreditation is singly the most important process that residents can be involved in.

Accreditation Manual

The Accreditation Process: Ensuring Quality Postgraduate Medical Education in Canada has been designed by CAIR as a resource for residents to better understand the accreditation process for PGME. It has three primary objectives:

• To describe the accreditation process.
• To describe the resident's role in accreditation.
• To provide advice on dealing with some recurring issues of accreditation.

A complete PDF copy of CAIR's manual, The Accreditation Process: Ensuring Quality Postgraduate Medical Education in Canada, is available for download here.