Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Founded 1981
Type Non-profit
Location
Key people
 Thomas Nasca, Chief Executive Officer
John Ogunkeye, Chief Financial Officer
Affiliations American Board of Medical Specialties
American Hospital Association
American Medical Association
Association of American Medical Colleges
Council of Medical Specialty Societies
Employees
 103
Mission "We improve health care by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians' education through accreditation."
Website https://www.acgme.org

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting the majority of graduate medical training programs (i.e., internships, residencies, and fellowships, aka subspecialty residencies) for physicians in the United States. It is a non-profit private council that evaluates and accredits medical residency and internship programs. The ACGME was founded in 1981 and was preceded by the Liaison Committee for Graduate Medical Education, which was established in 1972.[1] The ACGME currently oversees the post-graduate education and training for all MD and the majority of DO physicians in the United States.[2] Plans call for the ACGME to oversee the Unified Accreditation System for all MDs and DOs in 2015.[3]

The ACGME's member organizations are the American Board of Medical Specialties, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies each of whom appoints four members to the ACGME's board of directors.

On October 24, 2012, the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) announced an agreement to pursue a single, unified accreditation system for graduate medical education programs in the United States beginning in July 2015. Plans call for the ACGME to accredit all osteopathic graduate medical education programs currently accredited by AOA. AOA and AACOM would then become organizational members of ACGME.[3]

Projects

The Clinical Learning Environment Review project promotes patient safety, quality during changes in care, appropriate supervision of care, managing fatigue of residents, and increasing the professionalism of physicians.[4]

In the Outcome Project a set of assessments for measuring physician competence.[5]

A review of literature in 2009 suggested that that ACGME measurements could not reliably be evaluated independently of each other and instead should be used together and with other measurements.[6]

Awards

Awards handed out by the ACGME include the David C Leach award and Palmer award.[7][8][9] Many of the awardees have notably earned multiple national level awards including both ACGME and American Medical Association award recognition.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ACGME". Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  2. ↑ Salsberg, Edward. Testimony to United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. Association of American Medical Colleges. accessed Oct 2007.
  3. 1 2 M.D.s and D.O.s Moving toward a Single, Unified Accreditation System for Graduate Medical Education By Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
  4. ↑ Weiss, Kevin B.; Wagner, Robin; Nasca, Thomas J. (2012). "Development, Testing, and Implementation of the ACGME Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program". Journal of Graduate Medical Education 4 (3): 396–398. doi:10.4300/JGME-04-03-31. ISSN 1949-8349.
  5. ↑ Swing, Susan R.; Clyman, Stephen G.; Holmboe, Eric S.; Williams, Reed G. (2009). "Advancing Resident Assessment in Graduate Medical Education". Journal of Graduate Medical Education 1 (2): 278–286. doi:10.4300/JGME-D-09-00010.1. ISSN 1949-8349.
  6. ↑ Lurie, SJ; Mooney, CJ; Lyness, JM (March 2009). "Measurement of the general competencies of the accreditation council for graduate medical education: a systematic review.". Academic Medicine 84 (3): 301–9. doi:10.1097/acm.0b013e3181971f08. PMID 19240434.
  7. ↑ http://www.acgme.org/acwebsite/home/ACGMEAwardRecipients.pdf
  8. ↑ http://news.health.ufl.edu/2010/11168/colleges/college-of-medicine/christopher-young-receives-davis-c-leach-award/
  9. ↑ http://www.insidedukemedicine.org/announcements/turner-gets-acgme-award/
  10. ↑ http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/dcl_award/winningprojects/Andrew_Miller_and_Rashid.pdf

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