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 6, June 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Shift work

  When the ACGME restricted residents' work hours in 2011, limiting interns' shifts to no more than...

• Residents leading quality improvement

  When a small group of residents at Maimonides ­Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., began...

• Building a program coordinator committee

  In April, 115 program coordinators met in Temple, Texas, for the third annual ACTION meeting...

• Entrustable professional activities

  From caring for a patient with diabetes to managing the dying patient, physicians might need to...

Issue 5, May 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• The next era of resident evaluation

  Before the 1960s, resident assessment often consisted of one physician's opinion about whether a...

• Pregnancy in residency

  When Elise Sullivan, MD, had her son Mason during her second year of residency at the Santa Rosa...

• Debating the value of simulation

  There's little argument that simulation pervaded medical education over the last 15 years. The...

• Use research to lead program improvement

  Lainie Franklin, MPA, is the medical education manager at the University of Missouri-Kansas City...

Issue 4, April 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Budget, workforce issues put GME funding under scrutiny

  During his opening remarks at the 2013 ACGME Education Conference in Orlando, Fla., CEO Thomas J...

• The next generation of leaders

  Daniel Stein, MD, is completing his fourth year of residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in...

• New fellowship recruitment timeline offers ­lessons in changing schedules

  When it comes to the new fellowship recruitment timeline for internal medicine programs, it's all...

• Quick tips for orientation planning

  As program coordinators across the country prepare for new resident orientation in July, Residency...

Issue 3, March 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Preparing for the most difficult conversation

  When an unexpected patient death occurs during a routine procedure, physicians are faced with one...

• Tools for better evaluations

  From early assessments conducted at orientation to evaluations completed at the end of rotations...

• The program coordinator's guide to getting started

  In 2001, when Joy Brown started her job as a program coordinator in the Department of Surgery at...

Issue 2, February 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Creating a faculty development series for area residency programs

  At a conference last year, a group of residency program directors and administrators from...

• Fostering research in residency

  When Lori Dickerson, PharmD, joined the ­Trident/Medical University of South Carolina Family...

• Shifting to a new model of professionalism

  Jeanne Farnan, MD, MHE, an assistant professor in the section of Hospital Medicine at the...

Issue 1, January 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Making resident education a team sport

  During a long day of work, residents go to a dark room and listen to a lecture while noshing on...

• The social media screen

  Residency program directors and coordinators know they can't ask a candidate about her marital...

• Improving resident assessments

  Early assessments of residents' clinical skills may be one of the most important tools residency...

• Get creative to make your budget bigger

  Sending a lucky resident on a three-day getaway to a spa or to visit family. Including healthier...