New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter B - Regulation of Professions › Part 60 - Medicine, Physician Assistant, Specialist Assistant And Acupuncture › Section 60.10 - Standards and process for the approval of international medical schools to place students in long-term clinical clerkships in new york state

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) General
				  requirements. To meet the requirements for approval to place students in
				  long-term clinical clerkships in New York State, an international medical
				  school shall meet the requirements in this section.
(b) Duration of approval. Based upon a review
				  conducted pursuant to this section, initial and subsequent approvals of a
				  school shall be for a term of seven years unless otherwise limited to a lesser
				  period for good cause, and such approvals may be subject to certain limitations
				  and restrictions as determined by the Board of Regents. The term of approval
				  may be extended by the Board of Regents on one or more occasions for a period
				  not to exceed 12 months on each occasion for good cause.
(c) Approval standards. In addition to any
				  applicable requirements in section
				  60.2  of this
				  Part, in order to be approved to place students in long-term clinical
				  clerkships in New York State, the institution shall meet the following
				  requirements:
(1) Recognition by appropriate
				  authorities of country. The international medical school shall be recognized by
				  the appropriate civil authorities of the country in which the school is located
				  as an acceptable educational program for physicians, and graduates of the
				  program shall be eligible to pursue licensure or other authorization to
				  practice medicine in such country.
(2) Institutional mission and objective.
(i) The medical school shall be organized and
				  have in place a planning process that sets forth the responsibilities of all
				  sectors of the school community and that sets the direction for its program and
				  results in measurable outcomes.
(ii) The medical school shall have in place a
				  system with central oversight to define the objectives of its program in
				  outcome-based terms that facilitate assessment of student progress in
				  developing essential physician competencies, and such objectives shall be made
				  available to all medical students and to the faculty, residents, and others
				  with direct responsibilities for medical student education and
				  assessment.
(3) Faculty.
				  The medical school shall have a sufficient number of appropriately qualified
				  faculty members to meet the needs and missions of the program. The school shall
				  provide for each faculty member regularly scheduled assessments of his or her
				  academic performance. All faculty members shall be provided with opportunities
				  to develop their skills as medical educators.
(4) Curriculum.
(i) The medical education program shall
				  provide at least 130 weeks of instruction, and the curriculum of the medical
				  school shall provide a general professional education and prepare medical
				  students for entry into graduate medical education in any discipline.
(ii) The curriculum of the medical school
				  shall incorporate the fundamental principles of medicine and its underlying
				  scientific concepts; promote the development of skills of critical judgment
				  based on evidence and experience; and develop medical students' abilities to
				  use such principles and skills in solving problems of health and
				  disease.
(iii) The medical school
				  curriculum shall include didactic and clinical instruction necessary for
				  students to become competent practitioners of contemporary medicine, including
				  communication skills as they relate to physician responsibilities.
(iv) The medical school curriculum shall
				  include clinical experience in a broad cross-section of areas, including, but
				  not limited to, primary care. All clinical experiences shall be designed and
				  implemented in such a manner as to ensure that students perform appropriate and
				  progressive clinical responsibilities, and, regardless of the setting in which
				  they are undertaken, shall be supervised by individuals appointed to the
				  faculty of the medical school.
(v)
				  The medical school shall provide instruction in medical ethics and human
				  values, including, but not limited to, ethical principles in caring for
				  patients and in relating to patients' families and to others involved in
				  patient care.
(vi) The medical
				  school shall demonstrate that there is integrated institutional responsibility
				  for the overall design, management, and evaluation of a coherent and
				  coordinated curriculum. The medical school faculty shall design, monitor, and
				  periodically review and revise the objectives, content, and pedagogy of each
				  segment of a medical school's curriculum, as well as of the curriculum as a
				  whole.
(vii) The medical school
				  shall demonstrate that it provides comparable educational experiences and
				  equivalent methods of assessment across all instructional sites within a given
				  discipline.
(5)
				  Assessment of student performance. The medical school shall have a system in
				  place for the effective assessment of medical student performance throughout
				  the program. The system of student assessment shall employ a variety of
				  measures of knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes.
(6) Administration.
(i) Responsibilities.
(a) The chief academic officer of the medical
				  school shall be responsible for the conduct and quality of the educational
				  program and for ensuring the adequacy of resources, including faculty, at all
				  instructional sites, and shall be given explicit authority to facilitate change
				  in the medical program and to otherwise carry out his or her responsibilities
				  for management and evaluation of the curriculum.
(b) Within the authority of the governing
				  entity, the medical school shall collect and use a variety of outcome data,
				  including accepted norms of accomplishment, to demonstrate the extent to which
				  its educational objectives are being met, and shall engage in an ongoing
				  systematic process to assess student achievement, program effectiveness, and
				  opportunities for improvement.
(c)
				  At least every other year, the medical school shall publish, either in print or
				  online, information on policies and procedures on academic standards, grading,
				  attendance, tuition and fees, refund policy, student promotion, retention,
				  graduation, academic freedom, students' rights and responsibilities including a
				  grievance policy and appeal procedures, the school's criteria for selecting
				  students for admission, the application and admission processes, and other
				  information pertinent to the student body.
(d) The medical school shall provide clinical
				  clerkships in accordance with affiliation agreements that define the
				  responsibilities of each party related to the educational program for medical
				  students and section
				  60.2(d) 
				  of this Part. Such clerkships shall be conducted at health care settings in
				  which there is appropriate oversight and supervision. The educational program
				  for medical students shall remain under the control of the school's faculty at
				  each instructional site, and such faculty shall monitor medical student
				  experiences and modify them as necessary to ensure that the objectives of the
				  medical school are met. The medical school shall inform the department of the
				  clinical facilities with which it has affiliation agreements and of anticipated
				  changes in its affiliation agreements or the affiliation status the clinical
				  facilities.
(ii)
				  Qualifications.
(a) The chief official of the
				  medical school and the other members of the school administration shall be
				  qualified by education and experience to provide leadership in medical
				  education, scholarly activity, and patient care.
(b) The medical school shall have a
				  sufficient number of appropriately qualified administrators to meet the needs
				  and missions of the program.
(7) Admission. The medical school shall
				  develop criteria, policies, and procedures for the selection of medical
				  students that are readily available to potential and current applicants and
				  their collegiate advisors. Such criteria, policies, and procedures shall be
				  developed to select students who possess the intelligence, integrity, and
				  personal and emotional characteristics necessary for them to become effective
				  physicians.
(8) Student support
				  services. The medical school shall have an effective system of academic
				  advising and personal and career counseling for medical students that
				  integrates the efforts of faculty members, course directors, and student
				  affairs officers with its counseling and tutorial services.
(9) Published policies.
(i) The medical school shall establish, and
				  make available to all sectors of the school community, policies regarding the
				  standards of conduct for the faculty-student relationship, the standards and
				  procedures for the assessment, advancement, and graduation of its medical
				  students, and the standards and procedures for disciplinary action.
(ii) Medical student educational records
				  shall be confidential and shall be maintained in a manner that will ensure
				  confidentiality as well as the accuracy of such records. Such records shall
				  only be made available to those members of the faculty and administration and
				  other administrative bodies or committees with a need to know, unless released
				  by the medical student or as otherwise governed by laws concerning
				  confidentiality. A medical student enrolled in the medical school shall be
				  allowed to review the content and challenge information contained in his or her
				  records if he or she considers the information contained therein to be
				  inaccurate, misleading, or inappropriate.
(10) Resources. The medical school shall have
				  sufficient resources, including, but not limited to, buildings, equipment, and
				  didactic and clinical instructional resources, to achieve its educational and
				  other goals.