The Residency Coordinators Handbook, 2nd Edition

Get the essential job manual for residency coordinators

The Residency Coordinator’s Handbook, Second Edition, is a comprehensive job manual and training resource, expanded in detail to answer all of your questions and give you the guidance, sample policies, and tools you need to make your job easier. While providing much-needed education for new coordinators, this book and downloadable toolkit also offer veterans new ideas, tips, and advice for improving their programs.

This resource helps coordinators meet the increased demands created by the new Common Program Requirements.

• Clearly define the roles, tasks, and expectations for
  residency program coordinators
• Understand GME and GME terminology
• Manage recruitment, orientation, and credentialing
  processes
• Learn about responsibilities specific to managing surgical
  and nonsurgical programs
• Optimize your daily program management tasks with
  time-saving tips
• Understand the accreditation process

What’s new in this edition?

• Expanded content in each topic area
• Glossary of GME terms
• Self-study exercises for coordinators to improve their GME knowledge
• Chapters specific to managing surgical and nonsurgical programs
• Chart describing the ACGME standards for administering the program and maintaining the educational environment, how program directors meet those requirements, and ways coordinators support the program director in meeting the standards
• Strategies coordinators can use to orient new program directors and faculty members
• Explanation of the coordinator’s role in resident education
  

Check out the Table of Contents:

• What Is Medical Education?
  • Understanding undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education
• The Role of the ACGME
  • The accreditation process
  • Communicating with the ACGME
  • The ACGME and the institution
• The Program Director-Coordinator Relationship: Who Is Responsible for What?
  • Building the director-coordinator team
  • Understanding the program director’s role
  • Supporting your program director
  • Managing mistakes
• Role and Expectations of Program Coordinators
  • Defining the program coordinator role
  • The successful coordinator
  • Competencies for coordinators
  • Coordinators as self-advocates
  • Nine learning activities for coordinators
• General GME Program Management
  • Case management
  • Rotation scheduling
  • Curriculum
  • Evaluation
  • Organizational systems for documentation
• Managing a Surgical Program
  • The ACGME Case Log System and reports
  • Scheduling and rotation considerations
• Managing a Nonsurgical Program
  • Curriculum management and outcomes measures
  • Rotations
  • Graduation
• Recruitment
  • Making a first impression
  • Receiving and managing applications
  • Exploring ERAS
  • Reviewing applications
  • Conducting interviews
  • Ranking candidates
  • The Match
• Orientation
  • New resident orientation
  • New program coordinator orientation
  • New program director orientation
  • New faculty member orientation
• Credentialing Residents
  • Internal credentialing: New residents
  • Internal credentialing: Existing residents
  • External credentialing/verification requests
  • How to respond to verification requests
• Resident Work Environment
  • Duty hours
  • Educating residents about duty hours
  • Fatigue
  • Stress and burnout
• Coordinator’s Guide to Resident Education
  • The ACGME core competencies
  • How residents acquire knowledge
  • Curriculum basics
  • Evaluation
• Coordinator’s Role in Academic Remediation
  • Educational development programs vs. probation
  • A model for remediation
  • Coordinator’s role in documenting remediation
• Financing GME
  • GME financing basics
  • Costs of training residents
  • Cost-saving strategies
• Appendix: Apply Your Knowledge
  • Self-study exercises for coordinators based on each chapter
• Glossary
• Easy reference glossary of GME terms

About the Author

Ruth H. Nawotniak, MS, C-TAGME, is a cofounder of the National Board for Certification of Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education (TAGME) Programs and its first president. Nawotniak spearheaded the creation of TAGME to establish standards for the profession and to acknowledge the expertise needed to successfully manage GME programs. She currently serves as the general surgery training program administrator at the University at Buffalo-SUNY. In addition, she has presented across the country and has authored or coauthored many publications on various facets of GME.

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