Accredit Consulting uses a style sheet that draws from the Chicago Manual of Style and The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage that we customize for each client. The following are some recent statistics from our work editing reports where there was no style sheet applied before the writing began:
- The Quality Control checklist included 157 variations in spelling, punctuation, formatting and capitalization that had to be reviewed and corrected in each document.
- There were 15 different versions of the name of the medical school used by different authors (i.e. __ medical school, ___ School of Medicine, ___ University Medical School, etc.) resulting in over 1,000 edits.
- The reformatting and recreation of charts and graphs that were unusable added 40 hours to the project.
Once you have gathered all the data, completed all the assessments and surveys and generated all the reports, you will likely feel like you are just a bit too close to the writing to have a good sense of whether the Site Visitors will see what you see in the material. We can review, edit and adjust your near-final drafts to catch things that you and your team have missed or just give you that extra bit of confidence going into your site visit. Accredit Consulting can offer an experienced approach to:
- Proofreading
- Consistency assurance of data and language
- Fact Checking
- Site Visit Preparation
Accredit Consulting can help ensure that all your medical school accreditation documents are consistently and effectively written and that site visitors will be able to find the information they have been assigned to gather. This service is available for just a bit more than you would pay for basic proofreading service, priced by the word or page.
We also have tools that make it easier to distribute portions of the Database and Reports to faculty members and staff who need to be briefed in preparation for the site visit. Each participant can receive a digest of the portions of the information that they are responsible to represent as part of the Site Visit interviews.
We are now taking new contracts for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 reporting years.
Site Visit Preparation and Quality Control Contracts are still being taken for the 2009-2010 reporting years.
Call: 919-794-4123
Email: info@accreditconsulting.com
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