Be prepared for your next ACGME site visit!
Meet the challenge head-on with this book and CD-ROM set. It provides the latest tools you need for preparation, including:
- an annual program review guide
- ten simple steps for residency review committee site visit preparation
- strategies for implementing internal reviews
- practical explanations of ACGME expectations before, during, and after a site visit
- a step-by-step guide to site visit preparation
- tips for completing the program information form (PIF)
- the latest information about revised standards and new requirements
Insider’s Guide to the ACGME Site Visit, Second Edition, authored by an expert graduate medical education consultant and an experienced graduate medical education director, focuses on the steps you should take prior to the site visit to ensure that your documentation is in order, residents’ files are complete, and faculty and residents are prepared for surveyors’ questions.
Provides even more customizable tools, policies, and sample documents than the first edition!
The first edition of this guide (titled Insider's Guide to ACGME Survey Prep) was packed with forms and tools you could customize for your facility, but the second edition provides even more! The second edition also covers the 2007 revisions to the ACGME common and institutional program requirements, including new resident research and outcomes mandates.
Make successful PIF preparation a breeze, with Insider’s Guide
This book and CD-ROM provide a step-by-step guide to the ACGME site visit, focused on the documentation and review you should undertake before the site visitor arrives. The authors provide an insider’s perspective on ACGME requirements, cutting through the confusing language to explain what exactly surveyors are looking for, and how you can meet their expectations.
With Insider's Guide to ACGME Site Visit, you’ll be able to:
Understand…
- How to meet the specialty program requirements
- How to handle the resident survey
- How to prevent common citations
- Past site visit results and identify areas for improvement
Document…
- The core competencies
- Duty hours compliance
- Revised research requirements
- Conference attendance records and documentation of faculty meetings
- The resident call schedule
Draft…
- The program information form for submission prior to survey
- Goals and objectives
- Supervision policy
Prepare…
- Files for review, for current and former residents
- A timetable for the site visit
- Resident portfolios
- Competency assessment forms
Fulfill…
- Phase III requirements by proving and showing outcomes
The table of contents includes...
- Putting the process into perspective
- Guidelines for completing internal reviews and annual program reviews
- Sponsoring Institution’s responsibilities
- Program personnel and resources
- Resident appointments
- Curriculum teaching strategies (Educational program)
- Curriculum assessment (Evaluations)
- Resident duty hours
- Process of educational quality improvement
- Final countdown
- 10 simple steps for successful RRC site visit preparation and PIF completion
Who will benefit?
Teaching hospitals, residency program administrators, residency program directors, residency program coordinators, designated institution officials, graduate medical education committee members, medical staff professionals, department heads, faculty development offices
Meet the authors
Shepard Cohen, a GME consultant, is founder and principal of Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. He provides consultation services to academic medical centers and community teaching hospitals in graduate medical education and related areas. At the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Cohen served as associate dean and director of GME for 18 years. He has presented and published on such topics as resident duty hours, the ACGME general competencies, hospital-sanctioned resident moonlighting, the distressed resident, the role of state licensing boards in GME, mastering the ACGME institutional review, and affiliation agreements.
Kathryn Andolsek, MD, MPH is the associate director of graduate medical education at Duke University in Durham, NC. She has been a member of the Duke University Medical Center faculty since 1981. She has held several positions there, including residency director of the family medicine residency for 13 years. Andolsek has served on the editorial board for the self-assessment program of the American Academy of Family Physicians since 1987. She has authored two textbooks, numerous publications, and many book chapters. She was the recipient of the Palumbo Faculty Achievement Award in 2002 “in recognition of deep and abiding compassion in the career of her patients and a tradition of excellence in teaching and mentoring.”
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