Residency programs and training specialist center on neurology: Criteria proposition for the Accreditation Council of the Medicine Faculties Association of Chile Propuesta de criterios mínimos para la acreditación de programas y centros para la formación

Abstract

The Chilean Association of medical faculties (ASOFAMECH) has a regular accreditation process for the programmes and centres for the specialist training. At the end of 2002 professors of neurology from three of the five training centres that were in this process of re-accreditation were invited by ASOFAMECH to form a committee to define a series of criteria for the re-accreditation in neurology. These criteria are described in this article: the profile of a neurologist who graduates from these programmes, the characteristics of a training centre such as its organizational structure, human resources, teaching and scientific activities, number of patients seen in different types of clinics and in hospital. A general training programme is also described: basic contents, teaching methods, training activities and methods of evaluation, supervision and tutoring. Finally, we define the academic and clinical productivity that a resident should achieve during his training. We are aware that not