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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Issue 12, December 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• An LSU resident stays behind to care for patients during Hurricane Katrina

  Before the flooding of New Orleans, Vince D. Cataldo, MD, had never seen stars above the city...

• Effectively educate your residents about HIPAA by focusing on responsibilities

  Physicians are privy to more confidential health information than perhaps anyone else in an...

• The AAMC’s cultural competency tool could help meet ACGME’s core competencies

  The ACGME’s core competencies require that residents are able to provide care that is...

• Prepare residents to staff your RRT

  As part of his speech to kick off the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 100,000...

Issue 11, November 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Displaced New Orleans med students and residents are back to work

  Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina threw the Gulf Coast into a state of panic and chaos, the ACGME...

• AAMC and ACGME tackle application and admission challenges

  The devastation in New Orleans not only forced changes for current residents and fellows, but it...

• Providers displaced by Hurricane Katrina

  Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed it left New Orleans in soggy ruins, displaced...

• Problem residents: How to respond to egregious conduct

  Confronting a problem resident can be stressful. However, failing to address a resident’s...

• Time-management tips: Improve productivity and efficiency

  As the adage goes, "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." Chances are, the most...

• Increased demand for orthopedic surgeons

  Orthopedic surgery, internal medicine, and family medicine providers topped the list for...

Issue 10, October 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Beyond limited duty hours

  As an experienced RPD or coordinator, you may be an expert at understanding what it takes to comply...

• Experts answer your resident fatigue questions

  During the recent HCPro-sponsored audioconference, "Resident Fatigue: Identify and Manage Your...

• Residency program risks revisited

  In the September RPA, we reviewed just a few of the legal concerns RPDs must be aware of as they...

• New AMA policies lend support to residents and medical students

  The American Medical Association (AMA) recently adopted a series of policies aimed at improving...

• Orient residents to your patient safety program

  Your resident orientation program likely includes an introduction to the ACGME's six core...

Issue 9, September 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Legal landscape: Involving residents in peer review

  There are often questions as to how residents fit into the peer review process and how information...

• Teaching residents how to teach

  New residents come into your program eager to learn. However, learning how to teach can be just as...

• New spin on accreditation: IM introduces compliance initiative

  A pilot program aims to bring creativity and innovation back to the highly standardized world of...

• Residents play critical role in JCAHO 2006 patient safety goals

  Handwriting legibility, standard abbreviations, patient identification, critical test results, and...

• Residency program risks: Avoid common liability concerns

  RPDs' primary goal is to ensure that residents get the education and training they need to be...

• In the news

  A study that sought to compare the occurrence of adverse drug events (ADE) at a hospital before and...

Issue 8, August 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Curriculum breathes LIFE into ACGME requirements

  The intent of the ACGME's requirements that graduate medical education (GME) programs monitor...

• NPSF: Don't accept excuses for risking patient safety

  As an RPD, you play an important role in ensuring that residents prioritize patient safety. You...

• Teach residents how translation services transcribe to improved patient care

  Good communication between physician and patient is difficult enough when they speak the same...

• Billing compliance: Lessons learned in the wake of PATH

  To verify compliance with the Medicare rules that govern payment to physicians at teaching...

Issue 7, July 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Residency programs plugging into electronic evaluations

  Every residency program must have a comprehensive, effective system for evaluating residents...

• Mind your manners: Communication is key to quality patient care

  Residents practicing at the Medical University of Ohio (MUO) in Toledo had better mind their...

• Hospitalists: Training a new generation of physicians

  In the March RPA, we reported that an increasing number of hospitals have either established or are...

• Q&A: Competency challenges

  On April 14, Hershey S. Bell, MD, FAAFP, associate dean for faculty development and evaluation at...

• States tackle rising medical malpractice costs

  State legislators once again wrestled with medical malpractice reform in their 2004-2005 sessions...

Issue 6, June 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Orientation programs help ease residents’ transition

  After four (or more) long, hard years of studying and honing their skills, medical students are...

• The call to competency: Teaching essential skills

  Following the seminal 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human, which showed that...

• Teaching and monitoring procedural skills: Challenges for RPDs

  In 1988, an intern who had begun her internship at Yale-New Haven (CT) hospital just weeks earlier...

• A strong policy can help with disruptive residents

  Residency programs are training grounds for some of the most dedicated and capable professionals in...

• ACGME to accredit sleep medicine programs

  On July 1, the ACGME will accept applications from sleep medicine fellowship programs seeking...

Issue 5, May 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Innovation and simulation: Teaching technology for residents

  Innovation and simulation: Teaching technology for residents For residents at the Riverside...

• Develop culturally competent residents

  Develop culturally competent residents Resident Stevens treats both Mr. Smith, a white patient...

• The gift of a good policy: Guide residents/sales rep relationships

  The gift of a good policy: Guide residents/sales rep relationships You may think drug sales...

• Educating residents about the effects of sleep deprivation

  Educating residents about the effects of sleep deprivation It's no secret that medical residents...

• Residents restricted from independent practice

  Residents restricted from independent practice Hospital medical staff offices are facing a new...

Issue 4, April 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• An inside look at the resident survey

  When the ACGME introduced its common duty hours requirements, the accreditor discovered it needed...

• Benefits for residents

  Compensation is a key concern for residents, but it encompasses more than just the all-important...

• Visiting resident programs: Tracking and evaluating residents and faculty

  Ensuring that residents receive the best possible education and training experience at your...

• Orientation programs aren't just for residents

  Properly welcoming new residents and helping them adjust and adapt to the rigors of your residency...

• Surgeons, teaching hospitals oppose expanded informed consent

  Claiming that new requirements for informed consent are not workable, particularly in teaching...

Issue 3, March 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Professionalism initiative promotes the caring physician

  Maintaining competent practical skills and protecting patient safety are important responsibilities...

• Court denies attempt to rekindle antitrust claims against NRMP

  On January 25, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied three former residents...

• Coordinators keep eye on certification

  Have you been told that you are "certifiable" for taking on the numerous, varied, and challenging...

• Look, listen, and learn: Maintaining compliance with JCAHO standards

  Most residency programs run a tight ship when it comes to ACGME compliance, but failing to also...

• The final frontier of graduate medical education

  Residents benefit from the opportunity to work in environments that differ from those in which they...

Issue 2, February 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Limiting residents' duty hours may not limit mortality rates

  You've spent time and effort finding ways to comply with the ACGME's duty hours rules, but new...

• Resident well-being: Help struggling residents manage debt

  The staggering debt faced by most residents is always on their minds, even when they're supposed to...

• ACGME compliance calls for comfortable call rooms

  RPDs and coordinators should take a close look at their call rooms, say residents and the ACGME...

• Post-grad surveys help improve quality of program, director says

  What better way to determine the quality of your program than to see how residents fare after they...

Issue 1, January 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Hospital goes beyond duty hours rule to restrict PGY-1

  Although many programs struggle to comply with the ACGME's duty hours restrictions, some are...

• Back to the basics: Create structure and achieve high test scores

  Internal medicine residents at the Oklahoma State University (OSU) College of Osteopathic Medicine...

• How to create resident teamwork: Ropes courses and river rafting

  Most residency programs welcome new trainees with the standard speech by a hospital leader, maybe a...

• PDAs reduce workload and help comply with ACGME duty hours

  When you're trying hard to comply with the ACGME duty hours limits, you don't want residents...

Issue 16, April 26, 2005

• Core competencies and professionalism in the educational setting

  The development of professionalism requires teaching physicians to successfully model the...