Accreditation pathways

Every credential a competent clinic or clinician should hold for the procedures on this registry, keyed to the issuer's own public register so you can verify a specific surgeon or facility yourself.

• JCI hospital accreditation

  Issuer Joint Commission International

  Facility-level standards covering patient safety, infection control, governance, and clinical quality. Required by many medical-tourism intermediaries before listing a hospital.

• ISAPS member surgeon

  Issuer International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

  Individual surgeon membership; requires national-board certification in plastic surgery plus peer endorsement.

• National plastic-surgery board certification

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. ABPS in US, BAAPS in UK, SBCP in Brazil, KSPRS in South Korea, ASPRS in Australia)

  Specialty-board certification in plastic surgery from the surgeon's country of practice. The single most important credential for any cosmetic or reconstructive procedure.

• IFSO Centre of Excellence

  Issuer International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity

  Facility + surgical-team accreditation for bariatric surgery; requires minimum case volumes, multidisciplinary follow-up, and outcomes reporting.

• ASMBS MBSAQIP Accredited Bariatric Center

  Issuer American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery + American College of Surgeons

  US-specific facility accreditation requiring case-volume thresholds, structured follow-up, and outcomes data submission.

• ICOI Fellowship / Diplomate

  Issuer International Congress of Oral Implantologists

  Dentist-level credentialing in dental implant placement; tiered (Associate Fellow → Fellow → Diplomate) by case experience.

• National dental-council registration

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. GDC in UK, ADA in US, DCI in India, MOPH in Thailand)

  Baseline registration with the country's statutory dental regulator. A non-negotiable minimum for any dental procedure.

• HFEA-licensed fertility centre

  Issuer Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)

  UK statutory licence for any clinic providing IVF, ICSI, donor cycles, or embryo storage. The HFEA publishes per-clinic success and adverse-event data.

• SART member clinic

  Issuer Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology

  US fertility-clinic professional society; member clinics submit standardised outcomes to the CDC ART national registry.

• ESHRE-certified ART centre

  Issuer European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

  European fertility-clinic certification covering laboratory standards, embryology QC, and clinical-outcome reporting.

• National cardiothoracic-surgery board

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. ABTS in US, FRCS Cardiothoracic in UK, EBCTS in Europe)

  Specialty-board certification in cardiothoracic surgery — required for any open-heart or coronary bypass operation.

• National orthopaedic-surgery board

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. ABOS in US, FRCS Orth in UK, EBOT in Europe)

  Specialty-board certification in orthopaedic surgery — minimum credential for joint replacement, spinal surgery, and sports-injury repair.

• NJR (National Joint Registry) participating hospital

  Issuer UK National Joint Registry / similar registries in Australia (AOANJRR), Sweden (SHAR), and other countries

  Hospital-level participation in a national joint-replacement registry; data feeds prosthesis-survival and surgeon-volume analyses.

• National ophthalmology board

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. ABO in US, FRCOphth in UK, EBO in Europe)

  Specialty-board certification in ophthalmology covering medical and surgical eye care.

• Cornea / refractive-surgery fellowship

  Issuer Country-specific cornea-society or fellowship programmes

  Sub-specialty fellowship beyond general ophthalmology, expected for surgeons offering LASIK, PRK, SMILE, RLE, or complex cataract / IOL work.

• ESMO Designated Centre of Integrated Oncology

  Issuer European Society for Medical Oncology

  Facility designation for integrated oncology + palliative care services. Useful as a quality signal for cancer centres outside the US JCI/CoC frameworks.

• ACS Commission on Cancer Accredited Program

  Issuer American College of Surgeons

  US facility-level accreditation for comprehensive cancer programs. Quality signal for oncology centres.

• EHS-recognised hernia surgeon

  Issuer European Hernia Society

  Society-level recognition for surgeons whose hernia-repair volume and outcomes meet EHS quality criteria. Signals subspecialty focus beyond a general-surgery board certification.

• National urology board

  Issuer Country-specific (e.g. ABU in US, FRCS Urol in UK, EBU in Europe)

  Specialty-board certification in urology — minimum credential for endourology procedures (lithotripsy, ureteroscopy) and prostate surgery.