Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU) could receive premier international accreditation for the first time from ASIC. Since last year, SBMU did efforts to prepare the infrastructure of improving the university and complying with international standards. Some of them including participating in the workshops organized by the International Secretariat of National Medical Sciences Universities, to obtain the necessary advices and doing widespread internal actions, to prepare themselves for the international accreditation by ASIC.
Then, the ASIC inspector’s team visited SBMU in May, 2012. During their visit, which lasted for two days, the experts of the International Accreditation Secretariat of the Medical Sciences Universities also accompanied them. Finally, an international accreditation certificate was awarded to the SBMU in July, 2012.
Now volunteered medical universities are receiving advices from the secretariat of international accreditation of Iranian medical universities or doing the pre-assessment stages. Among these, Semnan University of Medical Sciences (SemUms), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), Urmia University of Medical Sciences (UUMS) and Kharazmi as a non-medical university are poised to overtake other universities in international accreditation processes.
Reporter and Translator: Secretariat of International Accreditation of Iranian Medical Universities