In the interval between surveys, programs with full approval may be requested to submit reports of progress toward the solution of problems identified during the last survey. Major changes should be reported to the Committee on Assessment and Evaluation, which in turn may recommend an onsite visit or an internal review. The term of this approval is six years. Provisional Approval Provisional approval is granted to programs that have many strong components but also have problems that require defined follow-up. These problems may be either with a program-wide difficulty in meeting the standards of accreditation of the College of Family Physicians of Canada or with certain training sites that do not meet the standards.
Provisional approval is granted for no more than three years.
The internal review process would be that normally used by the university for the conduct of its own internal assessment. The university would be asked to communicate to the committee the findings of the internal review process relative to designated problems. This would be similar to a regular internal review, but would include, as a member of the review team, a family medicine educator, who holds a teaching appointment at another accredited family medicine program. This would be a requirement in those circumstances where the concerns of the Committee were judged to be of a nature that would require the review of an expert in the discipline. The university would be asked to communicate to the committee the findings of the internal review process relative to designated problems.