Residency training the neurology resident case log: a national survey of neurology residents.

David J. Gill, MD W.D. Freeman, MD Paul Thoresen, MA John R. Corboy, MD Beginning in July 2004, the Neurology Residency Review Committee (NRRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) required neurology residents to enter patient encounters into a Web-based data entry system. This system was meant to document actual resident experience for informational purposes1 (Robert Pascuzzi, MD, personal communication) as the ACGME believed the current institutional databases were inadequate and a nationalWeb-based systemwas needed.2 To assess the burden from and compliance with the case log system, the Graduate Education Subcommittee (GES) of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) created an anonymous resident survey. The preliminary results of this survey were made available to the NRRC in May 2005. Citing inefficiencies in the current system, the NRRC made entry of the data voluntary on June 1, 2005.3 Here we present the full results of the survey.