The Quality Assurance and University Performance Division, in cooperation with continuing education at the College of Dentistry, held a training workshop on controlling records and documents, which is an important pillar and requirement for achieving national standards for the quality of educational laboratories.

The workshop addressed the importance of the role of the laboratory administration in the college in controlling documents in accordance with the requirements of the standard specification for documentation, and the necessity for the laboratory official to work on periodic review of documents and records while taking the necessary measures and solutions for development and improvement.

She stressed the importance of this procedure to control the documents and records necessary to manage the quality of educational laboratories in terms of certifying them before issuing, updating, amending and circulating them, in addition to the ease of diagnosing them and preventing the use of canceled ones, as well as determining the results of laboratory quality applications and who is responsible for each record and the retention period.

The Dean of the College, Dr. Thaer Hamid Al-Mayahi, confirmed that this procedure is the first step in obtaining academic program accreditation for colleges of dentistry in Iraq, and aims to ensure that the documents and information circulated are certified, up-to-date, controlled, and that they are accessible to those concerned with the quality of experimental results, as well as the conformity of records with laboratory standards. The field covered is all technical documents and records resulting from laboratory quality management.