Residency Newsletters

Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies focus on outcome measures, the core competencies, proper documentation, resident supervision, and program, faculty, and resident evaluation. Add to those responsibilities the challenge to prepare for site visits, develop budgets for your program, and mitigate legal risks. Residency Program Alert is the source you need to confidently meet these challenges. This monthly resource provides residency managers with essential tips, tools, and best practices from the most well-respected, in-the-trenches experts.

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Residency Program Alert

Issue 12, December 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Off-site training offers valuable real-world experience

  Sending residents to a distant community may seem unworkable when you're struggling to juggle...

• MSPs contribute to resident education and credentialing

  Medical residents have a lot to learn. But it is not just clinical knowledge that they must acquire...

• Hopkins resident explains why he blew the whistle on duty hours

  Does your residency program encourage resident to alert program leaders of complaints and concerns...

• Residents and pregnant students benefit from mobile wellness program

  When the patients can't come to you, maybe you should go to them. That's one of the lessons learned...

Issue 11, November 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Game helps teach residents systems-based practice

  Mention to residents that you're going to teach them systems-based practice to meet the ACGME's...

• Residents: Disruptive behavior can emerge before licensure is earned

  The story of Michael Swango, the physician currently serving a life sentence for poisoning his...

• Volunteering provides residents with invaluable educational opportunity

  The question of service learning gained attention recently when the American Medical Association...

Issue 10, October 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Second Match could require systems overall

  Have you developed an efficient system for recruiting residents and handling the annual Match...

• Don't teach residents and run: Check retention of lessons

  Researchers studying the effectiveness of smoking cessation training programs offered to residents...

• Review of patients promotes practice-based learning

  Why focus on studies of patient populations somewhere else when you have your own patients to look...

• Schedule conferences with resident hours in mind

  How do you handle conflicts between patient care and conference attendance? If we require residents...

Issue 9, September 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Four strategies for duty hour compliance

  Still trying to figure out exactly how to comply with the duty hours limits? You're not alone...

• Program uses professional growth indicators to improve performance

  The surgery residency program at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville developed the...

• Automated system helps monitor duty hours

  Two Boston hospitals are using an automated computer system to closely and accurately monitor...

Issue 8, August 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• ACGME set to release residency program assessment template

  The ACGME will soon release a template for assessing residency programs during site visits. The...

• Conduct self-assessments to find flaws and opportunities

  Self-assessments not only prepare your residency program for a visit from the ACGME, but they can...

• VHA strengthens resident supervision rules

  Recent changes in the resident supervision rules at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA...

• Night float problems prompt revision for better education

  An increasing number of residency programs are relying on night float schedules to comply with the...