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The ACGME Institutional Requirements: What Residents Need to Know
Douglas P. Beall, MD
JAMA. 1999;281:2352.
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) oversees residency training programs and training institutions in the United States. The ACGME sets requirements that institutions must meet in order to sponsor graduate medical education (GME). All residents should be familiar with these requirements because they are the "rules" of residency and contain many elements of protection and support for residents. This week's Resident Physician Forum will provide an overview of the requirements. The actual requirements will be listed and explained in a future column. The list of requirements is extensive and can be found on the ACGME's home page at http://www.acgme.org or in the AMA Graduate Medical Education Directory.
According to the institutional requirements, the purpose of GME is to "provide an organized educational program with guidance and supervision of the resident, facilitating the resident's professional and personal development while ensuring safe and appropriate care . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Resident Representative to ACGME,
1996-1998
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md
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