Williams Andrea, Miskowicz-Retz Konrad C
Department of Accreditation, American Osteopathic Association, 142 E Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611-2864, USA.
J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2009 Mar;109(3):128-34.
This article is the second in a series of discussions on the major activities of the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA), which is recognized by the US Secretary of Education as the only accrediting agency for predoctoral osteopathic medical education in the United States. Last year's article outlined the process that an educational institution undergoes to obtain accreditation status from the COCA and addressed the expansion of approved class sizes at the nation's colleges of osteopathic medicine. This year, the authors further describe US federal administrative regulations regarding "substantive changes" to institutional mission and programs. Class-size increases osteopathic medical schools, the most common form of substantive change requiring COCA approval, are once again detailed.
本文是关于美国整骨疗法协会整骨医学院校认证委员会（COCA）主要活动系列讨论的第二篇文章。COCA被美国教育部长认可为美国博士前整骨医学教育的唯一认证机构。去年的文章概述了教育机构从COCA获得认证地位的过程，并讨论了美国各整骨医学院获批班级规模的扩大情况。今年，作者进一步描述了美国联邦行政法规中关于机构使命和项目“实质性变更”的内容。整骨医学院班级规模的增加作为需要COCA批准的最常见的实质性变更形式，再次进行了详细阐述。
