| Report
on the Consultants
Dr. Arthur Brown and
Dr. Robert Schofield Visit
27th Oct. – 13th Nov. 2006
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The
Quality Assurance and accreditation entered the fifth
and sixth
Phase where eight further developmental engagements
were conducted using the trained review chairs and reviewers
who were supported by Dr Bob and Dr Arthur.
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Dr
Bob Schofield and Dr Arthur Brown as an External Consultants,
visited Egypt between 27th Oct. – 13th Nov. according
to the following time table: |
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| Day |
Dr.
Arthur Brown |
Dr.
Bob Schofield |
| Saturday
28th Oct. 06 |
Zero
day
Nursing Menoufia
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Zero
day
Pharmacy Zagazig
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| Sunday
29th Oct. 06 |
Zero
day
Pharmacy Cairo
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Zero
day
Vet. Medicine Zagazig
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| Tuesday
31st Oct. 06 |
Oral
feedback
Nursing Menoufia
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Oral
feedback
Pharmacy Zagazig
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| Wednesday
1st Nov. 06 |
Oral
feedback
Pharmacy Cairo
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Oral
feedback
Vet. Medicine Zagazig
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| Thursday
2nd Nov. 06 |
Report
Writing at QAAP |
| Saturday
4th Nov. 06 |
Zero
day
Vet. Medicine Assiut
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Zero
day
Engineering Minia
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| Sunday
5th Nov. 06 |
Zero
day
Pharmacy Assiut
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Zero
day
Pharmacy Minia
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| Tuesday
7th Nov. 06 |
Oral
feedback
Vet. Medicine Assiut
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Oral
feedback
Engineering Minia
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| Wednesday
8th Nov.06 |
Oral
feedback
Pharmacy Assiut
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Oral
feedback
Pharmacy Minia
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| Thursday
9th Nov. 06 |
Report
writing at Assiut |
Report
writing at Minia |
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During these
Site-Visits: |
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Dr Bob and Arthur have the mission to mentor the review
chairs and assist the less experienced peer reviewers
to be able to conduct further DE visits to other faculties
that will be ready in the near future . |
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They attended eight site-visits at Day 0 and final days
for each and joined some teams for their report writing |
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They supported the satisfactory completion of the 8 site-visits
conducted by Egyptians in phase 5 and 6. |
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They
wrote evaluations for each of these site-visits using
the reflections template slightly modified, together with
evaluations of the review chairs and peer reviewers with
recommendations for them |
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They identified the need for more training for the review
Chairs and peer reviewers in report writing, the associated
skills of gathering and organizing evidence, preparing
and enlarging written commentaries and making evidence-based
decisions. |
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According to their evaluation for the most recent DEs;
Dr Bob and Dr Arthur suggested that the review chairs
have not always had teams with sufficient peer review
training and experience .They recommended two lines of
actions to be addressed ;the first is to increase the
training and appointment of peer reviewers to improve
selection; the second is to use risk assessment methods
to identify DEs that may require an additional peer reviewer
to ensure adequate capacity in the review team to complete
the DE. |
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They also identified the need for the experienced and
accomplished chairs to be given additional training to
begin to take over the mentoring, on-the-job training.
They presented a plan for this to be addressed in |
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They commented on the draft template for the review report
produced by QAAP as an encouraging step forward and such
a template will be of significant assistance in on-site
report writing. they recommended that the template is
refined further as follows: |
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The
standard wording in the introduction concerning the programs
include in the DE, and that "…for accreditation
all educational programs are to have specifications and
annual reports" |
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The inclusion
of the standard wording for the judgments under each main
heading in line with the handbook. |
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The conversation
of the word document to a word template or macro, so that
reviewers can insert their paragraphs within the headings |
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The draft
should be carried forward each day of the site-visit ,
amended, refined, and circulated each day, until it serves
as a draft report for consideration by the review team
on day 3. |
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They established a provisional detailed time table for
further activities and site-visits in 2007 as a part of
further work on the road map. |
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