ACGME & Program Evaluations
This committee is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating educational activities of the program. They also review and make recommendations for revision of competency- based curriculum goals and objectives.
Program Evaluation Committee (PEC)
This event happens between the months of September – January for programs participating in the Main Match.
Recruitment
A required body comprising members of the active teaching faculty that is advisory to the program director and reviews the progress of all house staff in the program.
Clinical Competency Committee (CCC)
_____ is designed to help all residencies and fellowships produce highly competent physicians to meet the 21st century healthcare needs of the public.
Milestones
A finding of an ACGME review and recognition committee that states a sponsoring institution or program has failed to comply substantially with a particular accreditation or recognition requirement.
Citation
This document is written by the PEC annually and submitted to the GME
Annual Program Evaluations (APE)
It is recruitment season and you are gathering the documentation to provide to your applicants. After re-organizing them, you realize that you are missing a document. What is missing: Sample program contract, house staff eligibility for appointment, house staff salaries, current house staff benefits summary
Acknowledgement of receipt of information and institutional policies
How many core faculty members are required to be on the CCC?
1
At a minimum, Milestones are completed how many times per academic year?
Twice
The official communication from an ACGME review and recognition committee that states an action taken by the committee.
Letter of notification
This web-based software system collects, organizes, and maintains information for accreditation and recognition purposes, and is a means of communication between the ACGME and sponsoring Institutions and programs.
Accreditation Data System (ADS)
Interviews are 2 days away, and a faculty member is so excited that they have created a list of question to ask the applicants. Identify questions for this faculty member that cannot be asked.
Multiple Answers:
Are you applying outside of the southeast?
Are you planning to have a baby?
How many kids do you have?
Where do you see yourself ranking us?
To provide broad input from several qualified individuals regarding a house staff’s progress in achieving the specialty-specific ACGME Milestones, promotion and graduation requirements of the program, skills and behaviors necessary to enter autonomous practice, and requirements for certifying board examination.
Goal of the CCC
Milestones should be used to complete final evaluations of house staff. What is required?
A line that verifies that the house staff has demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to enter autonomous practice.
The review committee may identify these based on the review of the program annual review data related to the current review as well as from previous annual reviews.
Areas for Program Improvement/Concerning Trend
What is wrong with this programs PEC? – 5 faculty members (2 core faculty members), chair of the department, and PA.
No House Staff
Applicants are required to tell programs about which of the following as well as program directors are encouraged to ask about these topics during interviews.
Prior GME training Extensions or gaps in medical education and training legal issues
Are the listed voting CCC members appropriate for ACGME? One care faculty, program director, and program coordinator
No, the program coordinator should not be a voting member of the CCC per ACGME
For our educational programs, the Milestones will provide a rich descriptive developmental framework for what committee?
Clinical Competency Committee
What are optimal best actions regarding Concerning Trends?
Review at PEC, implement improvements (include responsible person and timelines), monitor for outcomes, note this on your APE, and address this in your ADS update
What are some practices to ensure optimal recruitment welcoming residents, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, levels, functions and geographies.
Multiple answers...
This person works the hardest during recruitment season to make sure that everything runs smoothly without breaking a sweat.
The program coordinator
Looking at this group of CCC members, who does not belong? Members include: 3 core faculty, program director, program coordinator (as non-voting facilitator), and a PGY2 resident.
Resident
How many core competencies are evaluated in the Milestones? Bonus question: can you list them?
6: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Systems-Based Practice, Practice Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, and Interpersonal and Communication Skills
What do you need to do if you receive a citation?
Review at PEC, implement improvements (include responsible person and timelines), monitor for outcomes, note this on your APE, and address this in your ADS update