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Susan Swing, PhD

JAMA. 1998;279:1492.

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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recently launched a 3-year project to study ways to better incorporate educational outcomes assessment into the residency review process. The long-term goal of the project is to develop accreditation procedures that take into account not only whether residency programs provide residents with adequate opportunities to learn but also whether a program's residents actually develop into competent patient care providers and professionals. The ACGME believes that this project will lead to better ways to measure the quality of graduate medical education.

The ACGME is responsible for evaluating the quality of the 7619 residency programs in the United States and Puerto Rico. The ACGME delegates accrediting authority to 27 Residency Review Committees. The Residency Review Committees conduct the evaluations within their specialty and/or subspecialties. Traditionally, accreditation reviews have focused on process and structure variables, such as availability of facilities and equipment, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Director of Research
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
American Medical Association
Chicago, Ill