Insiders Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review

Prepare now for your next institutional review

DIOs, program directors, coordinators, and other GME personnel often have very few resources and very little time to help them prepare for institutional reviews (IR). Too often, institutions must force years of compliance and oversight responsibilities into the few weeks prior to a review.

Make your next review a breeze, with Insider s Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review

Easy to read and use, this indispensable guide provides the tools and best practices you need to prepare now for your next institutional review. This book and CD-ROM set will help you:

Complete the revised institutional review document

Clearly delineate key functions of GME roles

Collaborate with your GME colleagues to ensure compliance

Streamline GME policies and procedures within your institution

Prepare for, complete, and analyze an internal review and report

Incorporate the results of individual program reviews into your process

Optimize your processes with the essential guidance in this resource.

Both large and small programs can benefit from the strategies presented in this guide. GME offices of any size can use this book as a guide to improve their program policies and establish the most effective GME management. You ll be able to:

Ensure that compliance is not just achieved in specific programs, but throughout the entire institution

Deal with disruptive residents, pharmaceutical representatives, and financial and legal concerns

Train non-GMEC members on the institutional review

Establish better communication and information exchange between programs and GME office

Optimize outcomes through collaboration during review planning

Identify organizational resources for GME and resident education

This book and CD-ROM set includes customizable sample policies, procedures, and documents, so you don t have to start from scratch!

With the insider tips from this essential resource, you ll be able to clearly demonstrate your organization s ability to provide administrative oversight and protect residents and their learning environment. Learn how to ensure, document, and demonstrate institutional compliance with the following ACGME requirements, and more:

Financial support

Resident well-being

Work hours

Competency

You ll also discover steps that your institution can take prior to the institutional review to ensure not only that the ACGME s institutional requirements are fulfilled, but also that the GMEC is organized and performing the correct functions and that resources for medical education and residents within the institution are clearly outlined and organized.

Eliminate the headaches and simplify institutional review preparation, with Insider s Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review.

Who will benefit?

Teaching hospitals, residency program administrators, residency program directors, residency program coordinators, designated institution officials, graduate medical education committee members, medical staff professionals, department heads, faculty development offices