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Find your program’s RRC guidelines on the ACGME website at www.ACGME.org (follow the link on the left of the ACGME page to the specific Residency Review Committee).

Graduate Medical Education nationally has implemented an initiative to transition resident and fellow education from a process-based endeavor to an outcomes-based endeavor.  Many refer to this process as “competency-based training.”  To learn more about this initiative and its impact on accreditation, please see the following links:

Items that must be approved by GMEC/DIO prior to submission to ACGME

Per ACGME Institutional Requirement IV.B.10, the GME Committee must review and approve, prior to submission to the ACGME:

• changes in resident complement
• additions and deletions of participating institutions used in a program
• appointments of new program directors
• progress reports requested by any review committee
• responses of all proposed adverse actions
• requests for increases or any change in resident duty hours
• all applications for ACGME accreditation of new programs and subspecialties
• requests for “inactive status” or to reactivate a program
• voluntarily withdrawals of ACGME-accredited programs
• request for appeal of adverse actions
• written appeal presentations to the ACGME

Do not contact the ACGME for approval of the above without prior approval of the Designated Institutional Official (Lorrie Basnight, MD).