Ask the expert: What should I put in my residents' folder?
Residency Program Connection, April 8, 2008
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You should include the following in your residents' folder:
- Rotation evaluations (global assessments)
- Procedure logs (ideally benchmarked to RRC and board requirements and compared to colleagues at the same level in the same program)
- Portfolio elements
- Documentation of resident's twice-yearly resident assessments with program directors
- In-service training exam scores
- Other required performance assessment
- Self-assessments
- Patient satisfaction surveys or other feedback from patients
- 360 evaluations
- Curriculum vitae
- List of conferences attended
- Evidence of scholarly activity
- Any activity or project in which the resident participated
You can also find more information about resident folders in HCPro Inc.'s Insider's Guide to the ACGME Site Visit, Second Edition, by Kathryn Andolsek, MD, MPH and Shepard Cohen.
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