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INSTITUTIONAL POLICY FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT OF AND LIAISON WITH PROGRAM DIRECTORS


PREAMBLE
The Bylaws of the Professional Staff Association charges the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) with establishing policies for postgraduate medical education and ensuring that all postgraduate training programs comply with the requirements, policies and procedures of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In order to carry out this function and provide adequate oversight of and liaison with program directors the following policy has been developed.


POLICY The GMEC has, as part of its membership, the program directors of all of the institution’s core residency programs: Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry, Pathology, Diagnostic Radiology, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Neurology and Orthopaedic Surgery.

All program directors of subspecialty programs not represented on the GMEC shall have standing invitations to attend any of the regularly scheduled GMEC meetings as needed or desired.

It is the responsibility of the core residency program director that is a GMEC member to maintain close liaison with the subspecialty program directors including communication to and from the GMEC as needed. These lines of reporting for the residency programs are as follows:
  • Internal Medicine
    • Cardiovascular Disease
      • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
      • Interventional Cardiology
    • Dermatology
    • Endocrinology
    • Hematology/Oncology
    • Infectious Disease
    • Nephrology
    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • General Surgery
    • Vascular Surgery
  • Pediatrics
    • Pediatric Critical Care
    • Pediatric Endocrinology
    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
    • Pediatric Infectious Disease
    • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • Psychiatry
    • Child Psychiatry
  • Diagnostic Radiology
    • Neuroradiology
    • Interventional Radiology
  • Neurology
    • Child Neurology
    • Clinical Neurophysiology
The GMEC annually shall receive reports from each program director including the directors of the subspecialties. The report shall provide an update for the GMEC on the individual program and shall include:
  1. Recruitment issues
  2. Success in the most recent NRMP match
  3. Advancement of residents in the program
  4. Progress in addressing citations or concerns in ACGME letters of notification, or in internal reviews
  5. The success of the program’s residents on in-service examinations and certifying examinations
  6. When appropriate, an evaluation of experience obtained in a participating institution(s) or outside rotation(s) and assurance that appropriate liaison with program personnel in the affiliated institution(s) occurs

These reports shall be supplemented by an annual written report (see “Harbor-UCLA Residency Program Annual Report to the Graduate Medical Education Committee” form) and a review of the program’s policies and procedures binder (“Bluebook”).

Adopted August 2000, Reviewed July 2002, Reviewed August 2004



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