The Complete Residency Program Management Guide
Ruth Nawotniak, MS, CTAGME
Product Description:
All the necessary tools for residency program management—in one convenient resource!
The Complete Residency Program Management Guide is a comprehensive manual that offers a unique combination of step-by-step instructions and quick reference information, as well as customizable forms and tools on CD, a glossary of terms, and strategies to help you apply the information to your own program. It will be your go-to resource for all program management activities. With all the tools, resources, and information packed into this single-volume and CD set, you will be able to:
- Clearly define the roles, tasks, and expectations for program director and coordinator
- Organize a successful interview season and get the best recruits
- Develop a competency-based curriculum and assessment program
- Gain strategies for handling disruptive residents
- Obtain funding for your program
- Learn about responsibilities specific to managing surgical and non-surgical training programs
- Optimize your daily program management tasks with time-saving tips
- Manage documentation, orientation, credentialing, recruitment and more
If you liked The Residency Coordinator’s Handbook and The Residency Program Director’s Handbook, you will love this one-stop resource, which provides the next level of information and training essential to your program’s success:
- Save time with sample forms and tools
- Tackle daily responsibilities with a comprehensive guide to daily tasks in program management
- Stay on track with an annual calendar and timelines for activities
- Gain insight from your peers with tips and best practices from other program managers
- Stay in-the-know with a GME glossary of common terms
- Apply your knowledge with test questions for your own program
Take a look at what’s inside.
Organized by topic for your convenience, this comprehensive guide provides much needed education for new program managers, as well as new ideas and tips for veteran administrators. You will benefit from a detailed, in-depth examination of:
What is medical education?
- Understanding undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education
The ACGME and your program
- What is the ACGME?
- The ACGME and your program
- Program requirements and competencies
- Communicating with the ACGME
- Site visits and program information form
- The ACGME and the institution
Role and expectations of the program director
- Program director qualifications
- Scope of responsibilities
- Strategies for successful leadership
- Working with the program coordinator
- Managing faculty
Role and expectations of the program coordinator
- Defining the program coordinator role
- Coordinator responsibilities
- Strategies for success
- Professional development for coordinators
- Advocating for yourself
- Expectations for first-year coordinators
Managing a surgical program
- Case management solutions
- In-depth look at the Resident Case Log System
- Procedure logs and reports: What they mean and how to use them
- Rotation scheduling
- Curriculum
Managing a non-surgical program
- Recruitment
- Curriculum management and outcomes measures
- Rotation scheduling
Building an educational program
- Designing a curriculum framework
- Experiential curriculum
- Didactic curriculum
- Teaching medical knowledge
- Research
- Continuous quality improvement
- The business of medicine
Understanding and assessing the core competencies
- Medical knowledge: Educational expectations and assessment methods
- Patient care: Educational expectations and assessment methods
- Interpersonal and communication skills: Educational expectations and assessment methods
- Systems-based practice: Educational expectations and assessment methods
- Practice-based learning and improvement: Educational expectations and assessment methods
- Professionalism: Educational expectations and assessment methods
Recruitment
- Setting the right tone
- Using ERAS to manage applications
- Reviewing applications
- Organizing the interview day
- Tips for conducting interviews
- The Match
Credentialing residents
- Internal credentialing: Credentialing new residents in your program
- External credentialing requests: Verifying training of graduates
Orientation
- Orientation for new residents: Important topics to cover
- Ideas of resident orientation
- Orientation for new program directors
- Orientation for new program coordinators
Resident work environment
- Duty hours and fatigue
- Stress and burnout
- Scheduling
Financing GME
- Responsibilities of the sponsoring institution
- Program budget considerations
Dealing with disruptive behavior
- Defining disruptive behavior
- Identifying disruptive residents
- Managing problem residents
- Conducting an intervention
Academic remediation
- Considerations for remediation
- A model for remediation
With this invaluable resource close at hand, you’ll have the tools you need to successfully manage a residency program at your fingertips. Order The Complete Residency Program Management Guide today and see what a difference it makes when it comes to meeting your daily challenges.
Who will benefit?
Residency program directors, residency program coordinators, designated institution officials, graduate medical education coordinators, GME administrators, GME committee members and leadership, directors of medical education, GME managers, education specialists, deans for graduate medical education, chiefs and chairs of academic affairs
About the author
Ruth Nawotniak, MS, CTAGME, co-founder and first president of The National Board for Certification of Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education (TAGME). She spearheaded the creation of TAGME to establish standards for the profession, to acknowledge the expertise needed to successfully manage graduate medical education programs, and to recognize those training program administrators who have achieved competence in all fields related to their profession. Nawotniak also serves as the residency program coordinator for the general surgery residency program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in Buffalo, NY. In addition to holding coordinator workshops and working with program development for TAGME, she has presented at teaching hospitals and academic centers across the country on the topics of professionalism, coordinator certification, and graduate medical education oversight.Product Types : Departments :
