| Duties and Responsibilities |
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Stipends and position allocation: Annual review and recommendations to the Sponsoring Institution regarding resident stipends, benefits, and funding for resident positions. |
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Communication with program directors: The GMEC must:
- Ensure that communication mechanisms exist between the GMEC and all program directors within the institution.
- Ensure that program directors maintain effective communication mechanisms with the site directors at each participating site for their respective programs to maintain proper oversight at all clinical sites.
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Resident duty hours: The GMEC must develop and implement written policies and procedures regarding resident duty hours to ensure compliance with the Institutional, Common, and specialty/subspecialty-specific Program Requirements. |
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Resident supervision: Monitor programs’ supervision of residents and ensure that supervision is consistent with:
- Provision of safe and effective patient care;
- Educational needs of residents;
- Progressive responsibility appropriate to residents’ level of education, competence, and experience; and,
- Other applicable Common and specialty/subspecialtyspecific Program Requirements.
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Communication with Medical Staff: Communication between leadership of the medical staff regarding the safety and quality of patient care that includes:
- The annual report to the Organized Medical Staff(s) (OMS);
- Description of resident participation in patient safety and quality of care education; and,
- The accreditation status of programs and any citations regarding patient care issues
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Curriculum and evaluation: Assurance that each program provides a curriculum and an evaluation system that enables residents to demonstrate achievement of the ACGME-I general competencies as defined in the Common and specialty/subspecialty-specific Program Requirements. |
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Resident status: Selection, evaluation, promotion, transfer, discipline, and/or dismissal of residents in compliance with the Institutional and Common Program Requirements |
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Oversight of program accreditation: Review of all ACGME-I program accreditation letters of notification and monitoring of action plans for correction of citations and areas of noncompliance. |
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Management of institutional accreditation: Review of the Sponsoring Institution’s ACGME-I letter of notification from the IRC and monitoring of action plans for correction of citations and areas of noncompliance. |
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Oversight of program changes: Review of the following for approval, prior to submission to the ACGME-I by program directors:
- All applications for ACGME-I accreditation of new programs;
- Changes in resident complement;
- Major changes in program structure or length of training;
- Additions and deletions of participating sites;
- Appointments of new program directors;
- Progress reports requested by any Review Committee;
- Responses to all proposed adverse actions;
- Requests for exceptions of resident duty hours;
- Voluntary withdrawal of program accreditation;
- Requests for an appeal of an adverse action; and,
- Appeal presentations to a Board of Appeal or the ACGME-I.
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Oversight of reductions and closures: Oversight of all processes related to reductions and/or closures of:
- Individual programs;
- Major participating sites; and,
- The Sponsoring Institution.
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Vendor interactions: Provision of a statement or institutional policy (not necessarily GME-specific) that addresses interactions between vendor representatives/corporations and residents/GME programs. |
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Meeting
The GMEC shall meet at least quarterly or more often as determined by the DIO, also the Chair of the GMEC.
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