Accreditation from the Council signifies that the medical programme in question has satisfied established standards and measures of quality of medical education comparable to the standards of medical accreditation employed in the United States, and consistent with other international norms of accreditation.

Enacted in 2010, the Health Practitioners Act (“the Act”) establishes the Grenada Medical and Dental Council (“the GMDC” or “the Council”) as the entity responsible to oversee and “confer…with educational institutions with respect to the education of persons in the practice of the medical or dental profession” and “to promote high standards in the practice of medicine and dentistry” in Grenada.