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Accreditation of a health facility as a training entity

Accreditation of a health facility as a training entity

The institutional accreditation of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties aims to harness all the administrative, educational and clinical capabilities of the training centers for the purposes of training in the professional health postgraduate programs (general specialization certificate, fellowship of subspecialty or health professional diploma) supervised by the commission, which results in the provision of a distinct learning environment for trainers. The trainees are based on the foundations of health education, so that the trainee can obtain higher training that qualifies him for safe professional practice in his field of specialization.

List of services provided by the Institutional Accreditation Department:

Accreditation of a health facility as a training entity

List of services provided by the Institutional Accreditation Department:

The new institutional accreditation:

It is the authority's accreditation of health institutions after the institutional accreditation standards are met, enabling them to participate in the training process.

Requirements and procedures for obtaining the new institutional accreditation:

  1. Review the institutional and program accreditation bylaw and its executive rules, and abide by what is stated therein.
  2. Review the institutional accreditation criteria and fill out the self-evaluation form.
  3. View the Intermediate Agreement form.
  4. View the criteria for program accreditation for the first training program to be submitted for approval, and fill out the program's self-evaluation form.
  5. Fill out an application form for obtaining institutional accreditation.
  6. Preparing the letter of the official representative for academic and training affairs signed, stamped and dated by the chief executive officer of the health institution.
  7. Reviewing the duties and responsibilities of the regular representative for academic and training affairs.
  8. Pay the institutional accreditation fees (fifty thousand Saudi riyals for the entire period of validity of the institutional accreditation), which includes the program accreditation fees for the first training program in the training center for the first year of accrediting the program, at the authority’s account shown below, with the need to clarify the approved name of the health institution when depositing the fees, and sending A copy of the deposit receipt to the institutional accreditation department email shown below.
  9. All requirements shall be accompanied by a letter addressed to the executive management for accreditation, including the health institution's desire to obtain institutional accreditation. The letter shall be signed, stamped and dated by the regular representative of academic affairs and training.
  10. All requirements are sent to the Institutional Accreditation Department's electronic mail shown below.
  11. After receiving and reviewing the application and ensuring that all requirements are met, an accreditation visit will be coordinated to assess the status of institutional accreditation standards being met.
  12. The report of the institutional accreditation visit is presented to the relevant committee.
  13. After reviewing the report and based on the recommendation of the Institutional Accreditation Committee, the institutional accreditation decision is prepared and sent to the authority concerned with the decision.

Requirements for a remote virtual institutional accreditation visit:

  1. Fill out the virtual institutional accreditation visit form remotely
  2. View the guide for regular representatives of academic and training affairs and training program managers for virtual remote institutional and program accreditation visits
  3. View the guide for institutional and program accreditation evaluators and specialists for virtual remote institutional and program accreditation visits

Requirements and procedures for adding a new training center accreditation to an institutionally accredited training center:

  1. Send a letter signed, stamped and dated by the official representative of the academic and training affairs at the training center, attached to it, a request form to add a new training center to the accredited training center and an updated copy of its self-evaluation to the e-mail of the Institutional Accreditation Department shown below.
  2. After receiving and studying the completed application, the institutional accreditation decision is updated and the new training center is added.
  3. There are no additional institutional accreditation fees for adding a training center accreditation.

Requirements and procedures for amending the name of an institutionally accredited training center:

  1. A letter signed, stamped and dated by the regular representative of the academic and training affairs at the training center, accompanied by a request form to amend the name of the training center, is sent to the e-mail of the Institutional Accreditation Department shown below.
  2. After receiving and studying the application, the decision previously issued to the training center is updated according to the new name of the training center.
  3. There are no additional institutional accreditation fees to amend the name of the approved training center.

All requests and inquiries should be sent to the Institutional Accreditation Department's e-mail:

inst.accreditation@scfhs.org SABB Authority to Deposit Fees:
Bank name: National Commercial Bank
Account name: Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
Account number: SA1210000020159007001306​

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