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Howard Pomeranz, MD

JAMA. 1998;279:1870.

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A recent petition by resident physicians to the National Labor Relations Board¹ has raised the question, how well are resident physicians represented in their residency programs? In response, the American Medical Association (AMA) asked the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to address this issue. Last week's Resident Forum column discussed the ACGME's recent adoption of a "rapid response mechanism" to deal with alleged egregious accreditation violations by residency programs. The ACGME has also been reviewing its institutional requirements, which contains the standards that each institution must meet in order to sponsor graduate medical education (GME) programs.

The ACGME delegated consideration of this issue to its Institutional Review Committee (IRC), which is charged with the review of institutions sponsoring GME programs. The institutional requirements covers matters such as institutional commitment to provide organizational and financial support for GME; the composition and responsibilities of the institution's GME . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Resident Representative
ACGME Institutional Review Committee