Accreditation Commission of Colleges of Medicine

The Accreditation Commission of Colleges of Medicine is an international review and accreditation service for medical schools.[1]

The National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA), part of the United States Department of Education, has listed ACCM as "found to use standards to accredit their medical schools that are comparable to the standards used to accredit medical schools in the United States."[1]

The ACCM works on behalf of medical school accreditation for the following Caribbean countries and one middle Eastern country and according to its site there is only one medical school in each of the countries:[2][3]

Country School First accredited Current status
Aruba Xavier University School of Medicine 2015 Accredited until May 31, 2018
Cayman Islands St. Matthew's University 2001 Accredited until June 30, 2019
Nevis Medical University of the Americas 2007 Accredited until May 31, 2022
Saint Kitts University of Medicine and Health Sciences 2015 Accredited until May 31, 2021
Sint Maarten American University of the Caribbean 1995 Accredited until December 31, 2021
Jordan Medical Programme at the University of Jordan 2016 Accredited until May 31, 2022

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