Duty Hours
The length of a shift permitted for PGY-1 residents under current ACGME duty hour standards.
What is 16 hours?
This document is mandatory between the program and each participating site.
What is a program letter of agreement (PLA)?
What type of supervision allows the supervising physician to be physically present with the resident during the key portions of the patient interaction
What is a direct supervision?
Residents must demonstrate appropriate and effective treatment of health problems to master this.
What is patient care and procedural skills?
This person ensures the sponsoring institution complies with ACGME institutional requirements.
Who is the Designated Institutional Official (DIO)?
Residents must be scheduled for this every week (when averaged over a four week period).
What is a minimum of one day free of duty?
This board formed in 2002 to establish standards and recognition for administrators.
What is the National Board of Certification for Training Administrators in Graduate Medical Education (TAGME)?
This committee must approve a change in program director.
What is the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC)?
Improving care based on self-assessment and lifelong learning is part of this competency.
What is practice-based learning and improvement?
This person is either physically present, on site and immediately available, or available by phone or electronic modality at all times.
Who is the supervising physician?
The ACGME encourages this activity for residents who will be in-house for at least 24 hours.
What is strategic napping?
Each sponsoring institution must have this committee which includes the DIO, residents, program directors, and administrators.
What is the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC)?
Residents must be provided with documented evaluation of their performance and feedback this often.
What is semi-annually?
It encompasses knowledge of bio-medical, clinical, epidemiological, and social-behavior science.
What is medical knowledge?
This role must have a significant role in the education and supervision of residents and must devote a significant portion of their entire effort to resident education and/or administration, and must, as a component of their activities, teach, evaluate, and provide formative feedback to residents.
What is a Core Faculty?
The time spent on this activity by residents must be counted toward the 80-hour maximum weekly limit.
What is moonlighting?
These committees develop specialty-specific program requirements.
What are Residency Review Committees (RRC)?
This is the organization or entity that assumes the ultimate financial and academic responsibility for a program of graduate medical education, consistent with the ACGME Institutional Requirements.
What is the Sponsoring Institution?
This competency requires commitment to carry out professional responsibilities and adhere to ethical principles.
What is professionalism?
Qualifications of this person must include specialty expertise and at least three years of documented educational and/or administrative experience, or qualifications acceptable to the Review Committee
What is the program director?
The amount of time the ACGME requires PGY-1 residents have between duty periods.
What is 8 hours?
This online directory lists every ACGME accredited GME program in the US. This is a 6-letter acronym.
What is the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA)?
This document verifies that the resident has demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to enter autonomous practice
What is a final evaluation?
Awareness of the larger context of healthcare is required to achieve this competency.
What is systems-based practice?
This person works extremely hard and is the brain and heart behind the programs success!
What is GME Program Manager?