First-round accreditation and pass rates on licensing examination at different medical schools in China: Closing the performance gap.

This is the first empirical study to investigate whether accreditation has bridged performance gaps among medical schools. The results support the value of accreditation in China, a country that recently established the system, and might work as a substitute for missing information on early accreditation history in countries with long-established accreditation systems. We encourage more studies in countries that have recently introduced accreditation systems.