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FINAL JEOPARDY
100

The length of a shift permitted for PGY-1 residents under current ACGME duty hour standards.

What is 24+4 hours?

100

This document is mandatory between the program and each participating site.

What is a program letter of agreement (PLA)?

100

This must be done on each resident upon completion of the program and must become part of the resident's permanent record.

What is a final evaluation?

100

This competency requires commitment to carry out professional responsibilities and adhere to ethical principles.

What is professionalism?

100

This PGY level is not allowed to moonlight.

Who is a PGY-1 resident?

200
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?
200

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)?

200

Program Evaluation and Clinical Competency Committees must have this kind of description.

What is written description?

200
Improving care based on self-assessment and lifelong learning is part of this competency.
What is practice-based learning and improvement?
200

This person ensures the sponsoring institution complies with ACGME institutional requirements.

Who is the Designated Institutional Official (DIO)?

300
The ACGME encourages this activity for residents who will be in-house for at least 24 hours.
What is strategic napping?
300

Each sponsoring institution must have this committee which includes the DIO, residents, program directors, and administrators.

What is the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC)?

300

Programs must educate all residents and faculty to recognize the signs of this.

What is fatigue and sleep deprivation?

300
It encompasses knowledge of bio-medical, clinical, epidemiological, and social-behavior science.
What is medical knowledge?
300

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?

400
The time spent on this activity by residents must be counted toward the 80-hour maximum weekly limit.
What is moonlighting?
400

This on-line directory lists every ACGME accredited GME program in the US.

What is the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA)?

400

Competency based developmental outcomes (e.g., knowledge, skills, attitudes, and performance) that can be demonstrated progressively by residents/fellows from the beginning through graduation.

What are milestones?

400

These are critical in the development of the competent, caring, and resilient physician. 

What are the psychological, emotional, and physical well-being?

400

This person is responsible for entering the rank list in the National Residency Matching Program website.

Who is the program director?

500

The amount of time the ACGME requires residents have between duty periods.

What is 8 hours?

500
These committees develop specialty-specific program requirements.
What are Residency Review Committees (RRC)?
500

In this year the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education was established. 

What is 1981? 

500

Awareness of the larger context of healthcare is required to achieve this competency.

What is systems-based practice?

500

The President and CEO of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. 

Who is Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP?

500


This person works very hard, for very little, at very long hours, and yet is very pleasant at all times!

Who is a program coordinator? 

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