The Residency Program Director's Handbook, Second Edition
Sara Multerer, MD, FAAP, Linda S. Nield, MD, and Jennifer Reemtsma, M.Ed The Residency Program Director's Handbook, Second Edition, is an on-the-job manual tailored to residency program directors and administrators. In this updated edition, Sara Multerer, MD, FAAP, Linda S. Nield, MD, and Jennifer L. Reemtsma, M.Ed, provide expert tips for developing a disciplinary policy, measuring outcomes, evaluating residents and faculty, assessing a curriculum, navigating the program director's role in the Next Accreditation System (NAS) and Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER), and other ACGME requirements. This book will streamline the day-to-day responsibilities of graduate medical education office and reveal new and innovative teaching strategies to reach your residents.
This updated edition of The Residency Program Director's Handbook is a complete guide to the director position that also includes tips for evaluating a program's strengths and weaknesses, developing goals, and overseeing committees. This book will also help directors of AOA-accredited programs transition to a single accreditation system.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Graduate Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Residency Review Committees of the ACGME
ACGME Policies for Programs
Chapter 2: The Program Accreditation Process Overview
Program Evaluation Committee and Annual Program Evaluation
New Accreditation for Programs: Site Visits and Citations
Chapter 3: Institutional Requirements: Balancing Your Role, Residents, and Regulatory Responsibilities
The ACGME and the Institution
Residents and the Institution
Chapter 4: Residency Program Personnel and Resources
Program Director
Program Coordinator
Faculty
Other Program Personnel
Program Resources
Chapter 5: Sponsoring Institution Requirements of ACGME-Accredited Programs
Organization of the Graduate Medical Education Committee
Responsibilities for Oversight: GME Policies
Resident Contracts/Agreement of Appointment
Annual Institutional Review
Special Review Process
Chapter 6: Education Program Requirements: Structuring Your Curriculum
Didactic Curriculum
Developing Goals and Objectives
Evaluating Effectiveness/Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses
Linking Goals and Objectives to Outcomes
Chapter 7: Measuring Outcomes in Medical Education
Entrustable Professional Activities
The Core Competencies and Sub-Competencies
Milestones
Chapter 8: Clinical Learning Environment Review
Chapter 9: Program Director Duties
Resident Recruitment
SOAP
Visas
Resident Orientation
Policies
Didactic and Clinical Education
Faculty
Interface With ACGME
Resident Rotation Schedule
Off-Site Rotations
Program Letter of Agreement
Affiliation Agreements
Supervision
Scholarly Activity
Evaluations
Goals and Objectives
Program Budget
Committees
Transition of Care
Alertness Management/Fatigue Mitigation
Semiannual Resident Performance Reviews
Resident Retreat
Resident Graduation
Chapter 10: Committees
The Clinical Competency Committee
The Program Evaluation Committee
The Resident Selection Committee
The Graduate Medical Education Committee
Chapter 11: Evaluations
Residents
Faculty
Program
Chapter 12: Developing a Resident Disciplinary Policy
Setting Expectations
Setting Minimum Performance Standards
Developing the Disciplinary Policy
Basics of Grievance Policy
Chapter 13: Surveys
Annual ACGME Resident Survey
Annual ACGME Faculty Survey
Institutional Resident and Faculty Surveys
Graduate Surveys
Graduate Employer Surveys
Chapter 14: Electronic Resources
ACGME's Accreditation Data System
Electronic Residency Application Service
National Residency Matching Program
Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database
Electronic Residency Program Management Systems
Chapter 15: Graduate Medical Education Funding and Budgeting
Budgeting for Your Program
Downloadable Components:
Sample Policy Template
Sample Special Review Template
Sample Noon Conference Calendar
Sample Resident Conference Evaluation
Sample Resident Evaluation of a Rotation Curriculum
Sample Resident Evaluation of Teaching Faculty
Sample Resident Evaluation of Rotation Stressors
Sample Program Letter of Agreement
Sample Competency-Based Evaluation Form of Resident
Sample Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX)
Sample Patient Evaluation Form
Sample Summative Evaluation of Resident
Sample Medical Educator Evaluation
Sample Annual Program Evaluation
Sample of an Institutional Resident Survey
Sample Institutional Faculty Survey
Sample Post-Graduate Survey
Sample Graduate Employer Survey
Who Will Benefit:
- Residency program director
- Designated institution official
- Graduate medical education coordinator
- Residency program coordinator
- GME administrator
- GME committee members and leadership
- Director of medical education
About the Author :
Sara Multerer, MD, FAAP, is an associate director for the pediatric residency program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), a position she has held for six years. After completion of her pediatric residency training at the University of Louisville, she was elected Richard S. Wolf Chief Resident and Lecturer for the program. At the end of her tenure as chief resident in 2009, Multerer stayed in Louisville as faculty in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, where she is an assistant professor. She is a current participant in Cohort 6 of the Academic Pediatric Association's Educational Scholars Program (ESP) and will join the ESP Curriculum Committee in 2015. Locally, Multerer has received a Department of Pediatrics Faculty Peer Clinician-Teacher Excellence award for two years in a row.
In her associate program director role, Multerer is the chair of the program's Curriculum Committee, where she focuses on curriculum development and oversight. Under her leadership, the committee has created and approved 14 new resident rotations in the last five years. Additionally, Multerer is responsible for the program's oversight and implementation of both the new Individualized Curriculum and the Pediatric Milestone Project, and she has served as the site director for three Longitudinal Education Assessment Research Network (LEARN) projects run by the Association of Pediatric Program Directors.
Linda S. Nield, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and the program director for the pediatrics residency program at West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, where she has been on faculty since 1993 after completion of her residency. A native of Rhode Island, she is a 1986 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Nield has more than two decades of experience with mentoring medical students and residents, especially with career planning, board preparation, and the process of writing for clinical literature.
Jennifer L. Reemtsma, M.Ed, is the director of graduate medical education at the Christ Hospital Health Network in Cincinnati. She joined the institution in May 2014.
Reemtsma has more than 20 years of experience as an educator, most recently serving as the director of medical education at Children's Medical Center in Dallas. She also served as assistant principal for the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District; education coordinator for the Dallas County Juvenile Justice Education Program; program associate for school improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and educational consultant for the Wright Group "Breakthrough to Literacy" program; in addition, she served as a teacher for Dallas Public Schools.
Reemtsma earned her Bachelor of Arts at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and her Master of Education at the University of North Texas, where she also earned her Educational Administration Certification.
