Medical-Education Groups Agree to Single Accreditation System

By Nick DeSantis. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine on Wednesday announced that they had reached an agreement on a unified system of accreditation for graduate medical-education programs in the United States. The agreement builds on a preliminary pact the three groups announced previously, in 2012. More...