Changes by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education: Success or Failure?

Changes by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education: Success or Failure?: An AOA Critical Issues Symposium.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has introduced far-reaching changes to the educational requirements for postgraduate trainees over the past 15 years. These steps were taken to improve the quality of education and to enhance patient safety. This symposium will explore the design and implementation of these changes and determine if they are succeeding.

Have Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education initiatives improved the education of cardiology fellows? Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Initiatives Improve the Education of Cardiology Fellows

Training cardiovascular specialists in the present era is highly complex. The list of topics and procedures continues to grow; the required knowledge base for providing cutting-edge clinical care and passing examinations is increasing; and technologies and research are advancing rapidly. Cardiology fellows face a changing template of demands from training programs, governing bodies, professiona...

Council on Graduate Medical Education

Internal medicine rounding practices and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies.

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has established the requirement for residency programs to assess trainees' competencies in 6 core domains (patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice). As attending rounds serve as a primary means for educating trainees at academic medical ...

Have Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education initiatives improved the education of cardiology fellows? Recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Initiatives Have Not Been Shown to Improve the Education of Cardiology Fellows

The “Best Lad Scheme” Before formal training programs in medicine, physician trainees learned at the feet of established physicians. Although formal training programs in internal medicine and surgery had been around for many years, the Flexner report in 1910 fundamentally changed how training was performed.1,2 Flexner described the mediocre quality of medical education at the turn of the centur...