Avicenna Directories > Database

 

Scope and content 

The aim of the AVICENNA Directories is to provide up-to-date and reliable information on institutions that educate health professionals to all who are interested - policy-makers at national and international level; authorities responsible for licences to practice; teachers and schools; and students seeking to identify a suitable quality programme.

The AVICENNA Directories is a project in development, starting with medicine and progressively including pharmacy, public health, and other academic health professions.

At present, the interim "2007+ WHO Directory" holds basic information on medical schools from the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools (7th ed., 2000) and its successive Updates. This database is being continuosly updated until the release of the AVICENNA Directory for medicine.

The AVICENNA Directories will in due course hold contact details of institutions, admission rules, a brief description of the educational programme, the titles of degrees and diplomas awarded, accreditation status and other quality assurance mechanisms in use, and the like. Besides information on educational institutions the AVICENNA Directories will hold information at a national level, which will include the number of institutions, national requirements for quality assurance of education for the health professions etc.