The Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB) is a Committee on Accreditation (CoA) for the Commission on Accreditation for Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). As a CoA of CAAHEP, MAERB performs the everyday work of accreditation for medical assisting education programs: setting up and conducting site visits, organizing, and reviewing annual reports for compliance with established outcome thresholds, providing workshops, resources, and training for programs and site surveyors; and submitting recommendations for CAAHEP Board Action.
MAERB works collaboratively with CAAHEP to develop the CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in Medical Assisting. To guide the medical assisting programs accredited by CAAHEP, MAERB has created the MAERB Policies and Procedures Manual that works in conjunction with CAAHEP’s Policies and Procedures Manual.
There are many virtues and benefits associated with academic accreditation and one of the most significant is the community that is created by educators, administrators, practitioners, and students who are dedicated to quality education. That community is expanded by the workplaces and other communities of interest that have a stake in the quality education of medical assistants.