Residency Program Alert

Look no further for the tools and resources that will keep your residency program on track.

Residency program directors and coordinators are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies like the ACGME focus on outcome measures, duty hours, the core competencies, proper documentation, and resident supervision. Residency Program Alert is the source you need to confidently meet these challenges. We go beyond the standards and regulations, giving you the practical advice, tools, and step-by-step strategies you need to improve your program and make your daily tasks easier.

Every month, RPA provides 12 pages of compliance advice, best practices, and tips from the most well respected in-the-trenches experts to help you cope with:

• ACGME requirements
• Site visits and PIF completion
• Duty hours compliance
• Documentation management
• Resident evaluation
• Policy development
• Core competencies and curriculum
• Legal liability

Some recent articles include:

• Show me the money: Funding graduate medical education
• Help faculty feel comfortable reporting poor performance
• Use the past to predict the future: A strategy for finding the best applicants for your program
• Crafting an annual resident program evaluation form
• Get the most out of your 360-degree evaluations
• Build a faculty development program from scratch
• Tech-savvy applicants highlight need for high-tech recruiting
• Resident file contents: Destroy, hold, or keep
• Three field-tested examples of how to integrate systems-based practice into your curriculum
• 10 Tips for a trouble-free orientation

It’s more than just a newsletter.

RPA provides more than just a monthly print newsletter. Take a look at all the benefits a subscription has to offer, at no additional charge:

• Residency Coordinator Chat
  This listserv allows you to network with coordinators in all specialties from programs across the country.
• Residency Program Connection
  Our weekly e-mail newsletter gives you access to the latest information, timely tips, techniques, and tools of the trade.
• Sample forms and tools
  RPA includes field-tested, time-saving forms and tools that you can adapt for your program.
• FREE, fully searchable, online access to current AND past issues
  Your subscription includes electronic access to every issue. With a few clicks of your mouse, you can access current and past issues, including sample forms and tools, with your easy online account.
• Special reports
  Whenever a new residency trend emerges that demands in-depth coverage, we publish a special report to supplement your issue.
• HCPro News Flash
  When there is late-breaking news, we’ll e-mail the information so that you are always the first to know.

Subscribe now and make your job easier.

Start your subscription today and you’ll receive tools, advice, and best practices on:

• Curtailed work hours
  Stay abreast of the latest duty hour news and get practical solutions for tracking and monitoring work hours.
• Creating curriculum
  Get tips on performing needs assessments, strategies to develop curriculum to meet those needs, best practices for balancing service and education, and practical tools to implement curriculum.
• Outcomes measures
  Receive advice on how to create evaluation forms that yield useful information, and how to analyze the data to improve resident or faculty performance and improve your program
• Juggling numerous administrative tasks
  Gain advice for coordinators and directors on managing program funding, organizing documentation, tracking residents’ scholarly activities, and building partnerships with the GME office team.
• Site visit survival
  Your program must be in compliance to avoid citations and bad publicity. You’ll learn how expert program directors and coordinators prepare for and survive the scrutiny. You’ll also receive tools and strategies on PIF preparation, organizing documentation for site visitors, and putting documentation and resources in order.
• Legal issues
  Learn ways to avoid or reduce liability and risk, how to handle verification requests, methods for documenting poor performance, techniques for handling disruptive residents, and how to fulfill supervision requirements.

With your subscription, you will gain access to all current and past issues, including all sample forms and tools. Here are some recent forms and tools offered by RPA:

• Salary survey
  Get tools to help you understand and refine your position within your organization.
• Sample summative evaluation form
  Use this template for a summative evaluation and stay on target for all the important elements of this assessment.
• Competency portfolio template
  With this sample template, you can save time and stay organized while tracking residents’ progress in meeting program requirements and learning the core competencies.
• Alumni survey
  We show you how to get the most out of your surveys, and include samples you can use as a starting point to make yours count.
• Sample patient care assessment form
  Use this sample form as a guide to create your own assessment tool to measure whether residents are meeting the patient care competency requirements.
• Sample records retention worksheet
  This sample form outlines one institution’s documentation retention schedule.

Try us now—risk free!

Review as many issues as you wish, for as long as you wish. If at any time you’re not completely satisfied, you may cancel your subscription for a prompt, polite, no-questions-asked refund.

The best tools available to cope with your responsibilities

You are challenged every day to juggle multiple administrative responsibilities while also ensuring your program complies with ACGME requirements. RPA is dedicated to providing you with analysis and advice on duty hour requirements, outcomes measures, juggling numerous administrative tasks, dealing with disruptive residents, site visit survival, and more.

For less than a dollar a day, you can stay in the know with the information, regulatory developments, and best practices you need to tackle your daily challenges. Subscribe today, risk free, and see for yourself.

Who will benefit from a subscription to RPA?

Residency program directors, residency program coordinators, GME coordinators, GME managers, assistant and associate deans, curriculum coordinators, designated institution officials, graduate medical education committee members, medical staff professionals, department heads, faculty development offices

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