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Issue 19, May 15, 2012

• News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change

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• News and briefs: AAMC's president calls residency expansion key to physician shortage problem

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• Tip of the week: Expand M&M conferences into the program

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Issue 18, May 8, 2012

• News and briefs: Report finds neurosurgery complications up despite residency duty-hour restrictions

  Research presented at the recent Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of...

• News and briefs: First phase of new specialty program requirements under NAS revealed

  The ACGME released restructured program requirements for four of the seven specialties scheduled to...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• News and briefs: Meeting prompts IOM to review GME governance, financing

  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will conduct a comprehensive, external review to study the...

Issue 17, May 1, 2012

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• Tip of the week: Remove resident probation status? A letter is better.

  When a resident leaves a program where he or she was put on probation for some length of time, it...

• News and briefs: University, health center plan expanded number of residencies

  The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Saint Thomas Health announced plans to...

• News and briefs: DIOs invited to participate in CLER

  Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, ACGME senior vice president of institutional accreditation, in a letter sent...

Issue 16, April 24, 2012

• Tip of the week: Coordinators must file weekly to stay on schedule

  A program coordinator must have organizational skills to tackle all the duties that encompass the...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

• News and briefs: Minnesota funding jeopardizes residencies, physicians

  One year after the state cut $27 million in funding for physician training, health leaders in...

• Featured blog post: Common Program Requirements to get facelift for NAS

  The ACGME released new details about the establishing of categories within the Common Program...

Issue 15, April 17, 2012

• News and briefs: Research looks to give residents a vaccination education

  In response to an increasing number of adults declining vaccination for them and their children, a...

• Tip of the week: Take preventative steps against fatigue

  Although duty-hour standards recently changed, the concern over resident fatigue should not...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

Issue 14, April 10, 2012

• Tip of the week: Give residents power to critique program

  With an overall goal of program improvement in mind during an internal review, internal review...

• News and briefs: UW drops ferrets for simulators in residency training

  Following months of pressure from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), the...

• News and briefs: IMG matches increase in 2012

  The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) reports a record number of matches to GME programs in...

• 2012 Residency Coordinator Boot Camps

  HCPro’s Residency Program Coordinator Boot Camp provides program coordinators with an...

Issue 13, April 3, 2012

• Tip of the week: Emphasize importance of duty-hour monitoring to residents

  Pressure to fabricate duty hours exists. There are plenty of positive and negative reasons your...

• Join the conversation: Follow Residency Coordinator Chat

  The listserv group, Residency Coordinator Chat, is starting to spark back up with conversation...

• News and briefs: Temple doctor gets more than seven years for resident billing scheme

  Joseph Kubacki, MD, was recently sentenced to 87 months in prison on 150 counts that include...

• News and briefs: Hawkins survey reveals top resident destinations

  About 94% of residents prefer to practice in communities of more than 50,000 people. This is one of...

Issue 12, March 27, 2012

• Tip of the week: Implement two types of learning activities

  The program information form (PIF) asks for information on both cognitive and didactic learning...

• News and briefs: Residents organize 'mutiny' at NY hospital

  Residents at Peninsula Hospital Center in Queens, NY are encouraging the American Osteopathic...

• News and briefs: 'Board eligibility' sets timeline for finishing residents

  Residents wishing to become Board certified must now do so within a new timeframe established by...

• News and briefs: SOAP leaves a fresh impression in first year

  The Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) matched approximately 1,000 graduating medical...

Issue 11, March 20, 2012

• Tip of the week: Make time to properly prepare your PIF

  Although the ACGME is shifting away from them in the next accreditation system, plenty of programs...

• News and briefs: Legislators propose bill to increase residency positions

  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) are sponsoring a bill to increase the...

• News and briefs: Study shows iPad boosts resident efficiency

  A 2010-2011 study shows that providing an iPad to residents increased efficiency, decreased delays...

• News and briefs: NRMP sees highest matching rate in 30 years

  The matching rate for graduating medical students and residency programs reached more than 95...

Issue 10, March 13, 2012

• Tip of the week: List examples of unacceptable behavior in the resident manual

  Most residents, program directors, coordinators and faculty know what constitutes unprofessional...

• News and briefs: U.S. News and World Report names top medical grad schools

  U.S. News and World Report listed 22 schools in the top tier of its 2013 rankings of graduate...

• News and briefs: Controversial resident training bill moves to Kansas House

  Kansas lawmakers are concerned that a newly proposed anti-abortion bill could cost the University...

Issue 9, March 6, 2012

• News and briefs: Vanderbilt program wins national residency video contest

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• Tip of the week: 'On-review' status serves as a good wake-up call

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• Featured blog post: Live from Orlando

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Issue 8, February 28, 2012

• Tip of the week: Track duty hours electronically with RMSs

  Web-based residency management systems (RMS) come with a cost, but the programs can pay dividends...

• News and briefs: ACGME Board reviewing professionalism competency

  The ACGME Board of Directors is asking the ACGME to take an active role in spearheading an effort...

• Featured blog post: ACGME announces major changes to accreditation

  The world of GME is feeling a seismic shift this week after the ACGME unveiled plans for major...

Issue 7, February 21, 2012

• Tip of the week: What does the site visitor want? Just ask.

  Never assume what a site visitor specifically wants to do or see on visitation day. Ask questions...

• News and briefs: Mass General surgery back in compliance

  The ACGME reaccredited the surgery program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston—one of...

• News and briefs: Hawaii seeks funding to keep residency program afloat

  Hilo (HI) Medical Center seeks additional budgetary funds to continue the family medicine residency...

• News and briefs: AAMC critical of proposed FY13 budget

  AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch spoke out against President Barack Obama’s FY2013 budget...

Issue 6, February 14, 2012

• Tip of the week: Conducting internal review interviews with faculty members

  Interviewing faculty members during an internal review can be the toughest interview for GMEC...

• News and briefs: CMS to redistribute residency slots

  According to an online article in American Medical News, CMS will redistribute 1,357 graduate...

• News and briefs: Teaching hospital leaders question 'patient safety data'

  A number of leaders at major teaching hospitals are questioning the fairness and accuracy of data...

Issue 5, February 7, 2012

• News and briefs: GA may increase residency number s across state, but cut main hospital?s budget

  Georgia Governor Nathan Deal is proposing cuts to the state’s largest teaching hospital, but...

• News and briefs: UA study links lack of empathy in residents to long shifts

    Approximately 68% of surveyed residents indicated a “significant decline” in...

• Tip of the Week: Treat faculty orientation like resident orientation

  Residents should not be the only in-coming program members to have a thorough and detail-driven...

Issue 4, January 31, 2012

• News and briefs: Bob Barker urges university to stop using cats to train medical students

  Game show icon Bob Barker is asking the University of Virginia to stop the practice of using cats...

• News and briefs: Teaching hospitals receive $2 million in Medicare overpayments

  Fifty teaching hospitals in Mid-Atlantic states such as Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland...

• Tip of the week: Getting involved is getting prepared

  Internal reviews require a dedication to organization. No matter how organized an individual or...

Issue 3, January 24, 2012

• News and briefs: IRS to reimburse former medical residents

  According to an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, residents, fellows, and the hospitals they...

• News and briefs: Senators call for GME funding review

  Seven U.S. senators urged the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct an independent review of GME...

• Featured blog post: Consider me PGY1: An introduction to the new residency editor

  It was a week before Christmas and my family and friends gathered for our annual December yuletide...

• Tip of the week: Chart stimulated recall improves medical knowledge

  Residents are given a number of different exams to increase their medical knowledge – one of...

Issue 2, January 17, 2012

• News and briefs: First Lady lauds AAMC, AACOM commitment to PTSD, brain injury research

  With a presidential seal of approval from First Lady Michelle Obama, AAMC and American Association...

• News and briefs: ACGME to test four-year family medicine residency model

  Will it be three or four years? A new ACGME pilot program will determine the appropriate length for...

• News and briefs: Report focuses more attention on social/behavioral sciences in medical education

  A new AAMC report stresses the importance of medical education focusing on the impact of lifestyle...

• Tip of the week: Stay organized in preparation of ranking meeting

  Recruiting quality residents into your program can hit a snag if ranking practices are taken...

Issue 1, January 10, 2012

• News and briefs: New requirements concern DO transfers

  The DO Advisory Board is looking to amend proposed changes to the ACGME’s Common Program...

• Tip of the Week: Celebrate site visit notification

  On the fateful day the official ACGME letter arrives in your inbox, pass out high fives instead of...

• News and briefs: CMS selects first wave of 'innovation advisors'

  CMS selected 73 medical professionals to the Innovation Advisors Program. These individuals...