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Douglas P. Beall, MD

JAMA. 1999;282:188.

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Last week's Resident Physician Forum presented some of the compensation and fringe benefits listed in the institutional requirements set by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In addition to these, each residency program must adhere to the program requirements for that residency's medical specialty. Listed below are some of the institutional requirements that affect the residency work environment.

Supervision

The institution must ensure that residents are appropriately supervised and teaching staff must be readily available to residents at all times. Residents must be supervised by teaching staff in such a way that the residents assume progressively increasing responsibility according to their level of education, ability, and experience. The teaching staff must determine the level of responsibility accorded to each resident.

Duty Hours
Resident duty hours and on-call schedules must foster resident education and facilitate patient care but must not be excessive. Each residency program at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Resident Representative to ACGME,
1996-1998
Wichita Falls, Tex