On comprehensive or provisional site visits, in which all standard domains are reviewed, evaluators are assigned to review specific standards according to their areas of expertise (
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Typically, a comprehensive or provisional site visit would have a team chair, 1 administrative/finance evaluator, 1 student services evaluator, 1 preclinical evaluator, and 2 clinical evaluators. Ideally, 1 clinical evaluator would be an educator and 1 would be a practitioner. The team members for a focused visit or interim progress review would be chosen according to the standards designated for review. For example, a focused visit that monitored clinical education standards in the third year of a COM class size increase (Standard 6) would have a team chair and a clinical evaluator participating in the site visit. A focused visit to monitor COM governance (Standard 1) would have a team chair and an administrative/finance evaluator on the site visit team. Currently, the AOA COCA's evaluator registry has a total of 121 approved evaluators comprising 18 administrative/finance evaluators, 19 student services evaluators, 26 preclinical evaluators, and 58 clinical evaluators. Nineteen clinical evaluators are practitioners.