The School of Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is one step closer to obtaining full accreditation by the authority that governs national accrediting in the U.S. and Canada.
The school announced Tuesday it was granted a provisional accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
School officials called it “an important step” for the School of Medicine, which welcomed its first student cohort Summer 2016, and said it positions it on a projected timeline to achieve full LCME accreditation within the next two years.
“I am pleased to share this great news about our School of Medicine’s continued efforts toward obtaining full accreditation, and I am thankful to our outgoing dean Dr. John Krouse for his leadership and for everyone involved in achieving this next milestone in the accreditation process,” UTRGV President Guy Bailey said in the news release. “We look forward to continuing this success when our new dean, Dr. Michael Hocker, joins us later this month.”
The university is already preparing for full LCME accreditation, a process that includes an independent student analysis, an institutional self-study, and culminates with a three-day survey visit by a team of medical educators and practitioners appointed by the LCME Secretariat.
For more information about the LCME accreditation process, visit https://lcme.org/.
