Resident's Orientation Handbook

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Resident’s Orientation Handbook: Guide to Core Competencies, Duty Hours, Evaluations, and Documentation helps residency programs and GME offices introduce new residents to key ACGME topics.

This new edition is updated to reflect the new AMA duty hour, supervision, and handoff standards. It augments your orientation program by giving residents an easy-to-use take away that covers main points and focus areas. They’ll find tips for understanding requirements for:

• Core competencies
• Duty hours
• Evaluations
• Documentation

With this pocket-sized handbook, you will:

• Protect your organization's accreditation standing due resident violations of ACGME standards
• Do away with conflicting messages
• Reduce redundant information
• Eliminate the need to assemble this information yourself

Don't overwhelm your residents during orientation

Give them the key information they need to know about the ACGME requirements—in a single, convenient source. During orientation and throughout their first year, residents need simple, easily accessible information and tools to deal with ACGME requirements. Resident’s Orientation Handbook provides just that.

This essential resident’s resource:

• Outlines key regulations and accreditation standards that directly apply to residents
• Provides residency programs and GME offices with a concise training tool
• Concisely explains the core competencies
• Details the new duty hour regulations to ensure resident compliance
• Educates residents about documentation requirements
• Walks residents through the evaluation process

Table of Contents

• ACGME Six Core Competency Requirements
  • The Six Core Competencies
  • Translating the Meaning of the Competencies
  • Interpersonal and Communication Skills
  • Medical Knowledge
  • Patient Care and Procedural Skills
  • Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
  • Systems-Based Practice Professionalism
  • How Will You Know When You Are Competent in These Areas?
• The Evaluation Process
  • Rotation Evaluations
  • Semiannual Evaluations
  • 360-degree Evaluations
  • Program and Faculty Evaluations
  • The ACGME Resident Survey
• Resident Duty Hours
  • The Duty Hour Rules
  • Why You Should Care about Duty Hours
  • Resident Fatigue Prevention
  • Fatigue Facts
  • Effects of Shift Rotation
  • Supervision and Transition of Care
• Documentation and Legal Requirements
  • History and Physical
  • Progress Notes
  • Orders
  • Operative/Procedure Report
  • Discharge Summary
  • Medical Record
  • Your Liability
  • Licensure
  • Due Process
  • Informed Consent

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