The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree in U.S. and Canadian medical schools. The LCME is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT, November 23, 2011
Pursuant to an October 28, 2011 Order of the federal district court for the District of Puerto Rico in the case entitled Escuela de Medicina de San Juan Bautista v. Liaison Committee on Medical Education et al., on November 16, 2011, an Appeals Hearing was held regarding the June 2011 LCME decision to withdraw accreditation from the educational program leading to the MD degree at the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine. The LCME Appeals Panel affirmed each of the areas of non-compliance originally cited by the LCME. However, the Appeals Panel modified the LCME's action and instead placed the medical education program on probationary status pending the LCME's consideration of the results of the full survey visit already scheduled for January-February 2012.

LCME NEW "CONNECTIONS" DOCUMENT, November 18, 2011
The Connections document provides an integrated view of LCME accreditation standards by connecting the text of each standard to (1) its corresponding annotation, (2) the medical education database questions related to that standard, (3) the questions that the institutional self-study committee must address and (4) the findings that survey team members must document in the survey report. Each component of the Connections document is already accessible on the LCME website, albeit in various LCME publications. By connecting each standard to the relevant section of each related LCME publication, the Connections document provides a more nuanced understanding of the intent of each standard and the goals for the accreditation process. Read Connections for each standard here.

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