Insider's Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review

Prepare now for your next institutional review

DIOs, program directors, coordinators, and other GME personnel often have very few resources and very little time to help them prepare for institutional reviews (IR). Too often, institutions must force years of compliance and oversight responsibilities into the few weeks prior to a review.

Make your next review a breeze, with Insider’s Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review

Easy to read and use, this indispensable guide provides the tools and best practices you need to prepare now for your next institutional review. This book and CD-ROM set will help you:

• Complete the revised institutional review document
• Clearly delineate key functions of GME roles
• Collaborate with your GME colleagues to ensure compliance
• Streamline GME policies and procedures within your institution
• Prepare for, complete, and analyze an internal review and report
• Incorporate the results of individual program reviews into your process

Optimize your processes with the essential guidance in this resource.

Both large and small programs can benefit from the strategies presented in this guide. GME offices of any size can use this book as a guide to improve their program policies and establish the most effective GME management. You’ll be able to:

• Ensure that compliance is not just achieved in specific programs, but throughout the entire institution
• Deal with disruptive residents, pharmaceutical representatives, and financial and legal concerns
• Train non-GMEC members on the institutional review
• Establish better communication and information exchange between programs and GME office
• Optimize outcomes through collaboration during review planning
• Identify organizational resources for GME and resident education

This book and CD-ROM set includes customizable sample policies, procedures, and documents, so you don’t have to start from scratch! 

With the insider tips from this essential resource, you’ll be able to clearly demonstrate your organization’s ability to provide administrative oversight and protect residents and their learning environment.  Learn how to ensure, document, and demonstrate institutional compliance with the following ACGME requirements, and more:

• Financial support
• Resident well-being
• Work hours
• Competency

You’ll also discover steps that your institution can take prior to the institutional review to ensure not only that the ACGME’s institutional requirements are fulfilled, but also that the GMEC is organized and performing the correct functions and that resources for medical education and residents within the institution are clearly outlined and organized.

Eliminate the headaches and simplify institutional review preparation, with Insider’s Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review.

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

About the author

Josephine Fowler, MD, MS, currently serves as vice president of academic affairs/chief academic officer at John Peter Smith (JPS) Health Network. She oversees the department of academic affairs, including the office of research and scholarly activity, graduate medical education, and undergraduate medical education for more than 500 medical students and physician assistant rotations. Dr. Fowler comes to JPS from Boston University where she was faculty in family medicine and director of maternal child health (MCH) for eight years. While at Boston University she was appointed director of MCH for Boston HealthNet Plan, the major insurer of the medically undeserved in the Boston area.

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