Institute Accreditation

Application for Accreditation of Hospital / Institute:

• Application for hospital recognition & teacher recognition are to be filled and the required fee has to be paid through DD in favor of “Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Education”.
• The institute and teachers applications will be scrutinised by the college office and the Accreditation Secretary.
• If found eligible, Accreditation secretary will appoint 2 inspectors who will make an on-site inspection visit of the institute.
• The inspection report will be tabled at the next College Board meeting and the decision of College Board will be ratified by EC.
• Once recognition is granted, institutes may start taking candidates from the same academic year if the process is completed before the last date of registration to the courses, or the next academic session if the process is completed later.
• In case institutes do not meet the criteria, they will have to reapply after fulfilling all criteria, which will be followed by a re-inspection.
• All appeals regarding the inspection report or recognition will be put up at the College Board, and ISCCM executive committee.
• The decision of the ISCCM executive committee will be final and binding in all respects.

Responsibility of Accreditation Secretary :

• Accreditation Secretary will be over all responsible for the process of accreditation including reaccreditation. It will be his/her duty to present the report to EC for final decision.

How to apply :

• The institution will apply on a preformed Performa available on ISCCM web site to the ISCCM secretariat.
• Each application has to be accompanied with inspection fees decided from time to time by EC of the society/College.

Duration of completion of Process of accreditation :

• The whole process preferably should be completed within a quarter (3 months) from the date of receipt of the application.

Eligibility Criteria for accreditation for IDCCM Institutions:

• Institutions interested in starting IDCCM can apply only if the Critical care unit have been functioning for at least 2 years.
• Institute should be a 100 bed hospital and at least 12 ICU beds with six mechanical ventilators as basic criteria.
• Institutions should have two full time faculty, who are eligible, to be considered as teachers, as per ISCCM Teachership guidelines.
• These Two teacher candidates have to apply along with the institute for recognition as IDCCM teacher .
• The institute applying for the accreditation must give an undertaking in addition to having two eligible teachers that:
  1. In case a teacher leaves the institute they will continue to provide training to the trainee
  2. All facilities in the institute will be provided to the trainee during his period of training in the institute.
• Institutions should apply for accreditation along with teacher’s accreditation. Both Teachers & Institute Form will be scrutinized simultaneously for accreditation purpose.
• Institutions that do not enrol candidates for three consecutive years will automatically lose accreditation and will need to apply for re-inspection afresh, through the formal process.

Note:

Timeline for correction of deficiencies by the institution applying for Accreditation: Institutions will be given 3 months period to correct the correctable deficiencies. An inspection will be scheduled after that.

Refund of Accreditation Fees: A processing fee of Rs. 35,400/- will be deducted and the Inspection fee of Rs. Rs. 82,600/- will be refunded within 3 months period from the date of application if the institution does not fulfil the criteria on scrutiny. Once inspection is in process, no fee will be refunded.

Providing false information will result in Institute/teacher non recognition/ derecognition.

All information sent by the Institution/Teacher should be certified by the Head of the Institution

If the institute academic coordinator violates the rules of the college, the institute will be debarred for one year.

Eligibility Criteria for IDCCM seat increases:

• At least two IDCCM candidates must have passed from an Institute in last two years to apply for increase in seats.
• For every one seat increase, the institution should have 6 more ICU beds in addition to the existing 12 beds with two additional ventilators.
• Teacher to candidate ratio of 1:2 for IDCCM and 1:1 for IFCCM to be maintained when any seat increase is contemplated.