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The HCPro residency department delivers compliance advice, best practices, training tools, and sample forms and documents to solve the toughest challenges in graduate medical education. These resources help residency program managers to ensure resident competence, comply with accreditation standards, and operate an efficient and effective residency program.

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  • 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 start to entering a program.

    Set a tone for the program with consistency in orientation. Program directors must discuss and reiterate the educational mission of the program during the interview to help drive home how important personnel take medical education.

     

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

     

    Approximately 68% of surveyed residents indicated a “significant decline” in empathy during “long-call” shifts, according to findings in a recently published University of Arizona report.

    Researchers at the University of Arizona surveyed nearly 100 medical residents at different hospital settings.

  • 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 additions to the number of medical residency slots throughout the state.

    According to a recent article in the online publication, The Republic, Deal proposes a $583,000 reduction in state funding to the hospital and affiliated clinics of Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly medical College of Georgia) in Augusta as part of his midyear budget proposal.

  • Tip of the week: Getting involved is getting prepared

    Internal reviews require a dedication to organization. No matter how organized an individual or program may be, keeping up with internal review best practices should not be limited to prior routine.

    Program directors and program coordinators should participate as members of internal review committees for other programs.

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

    Fifty teaching hospitals in Mid-Atlantic states such as Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland received $1.9 million in Medicare overpayments during FY2006 and FY2007, according to a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

  • 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 to teach the proper way to insert breathing tubes into patients. The practice seeks to teach medical students on the proper method of inserting the tubes into premature newborns.

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