TAGME REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔permanent complement increases - ✔✔Long-term increases in the number of
residents that require prior approval from the Review Committee.
✔✔specialty-specific instructions - ✔✔Guidelines for requesting complement increases
found on the ACGME website.
✔✔community health focus - ✔✔A program emphasis aimed at preparing residents to
address public health needs.
✔✔physician-scientists preparation - ✔✔A program focus designed to train residents in
both clinical practice and research.
✔✔Resident Responsibilities - ✔✔Delineation of resident responsibilities for patient
care, progressive responsibility for patient management, and graded supervision.
✔✔PGY Level - ✔✔These responsibilities may generally be described by PGY level and
specifically by Milestones progress as determined by the Clinical Competency
Committee.
✔✔Competency-Based Education - ✔✔This approach encourages the transition to
competency-based education.
✔✔Structured Didactic Activities - ✔✔A broad range of structured didactic activities that
residents will participate in.
✔✔Core Didactic Activities - ✔✔Programs should define core didactic activities for
which time is protected and the circumstances in which residents may be excused from
these didactic activities.
, ✔✔Examples of Didactic Activities - ✔✔Didactic activities may include, but are not
limited to, lectures, conferences, courses, labs, asynchronous learning, simulations,
drills, case discussions, grand rounds, didactic teaching, and education in critical
appraisal of medical evidence.
✔✔Patient Safety-Related Goals - ✔✔Formal educational activities that promote patient
safety-related goals, tools, and techniques.
✔✔Compassion, Integrity, and Respect - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate competence
in compassion, integrity, and respect for others.
✔✔Responsiveness to Patient Needs - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate
responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest.
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate competence in cultural humility.
✔✔Respect for Patient Privacy - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate respect for patient
privacy and autonomy.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate accountability to patients, society,
and the profession.
✔✔Diversity in Patient Populations - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate respect and
responsiveness to diverse patient populations, including but not limited to diversity in
gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, national origin, socioeconomic status,
and sexual orientation.
✔✔Personal and Professional Well-Being - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate the ability
to recognize and develop a plan for one's own personal and professional well-being.
✔✔Conflict or Duality of Interest - ✔✔Residents must appropriately disclose and
address conflict or duality of interest.
✔✔Quality Patient Care - ✔✔Residents must be able to provide patient care that is
patient- and family-centered, compassionate, equitable, appropriate, and effective for
the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
✔✔Improving Population Health - ✔✔Quality patient care is safe, effective, timely,
efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and designed to improve population health, while
reducing per capita costs.
✔✔Clinician's Well-Being - ✔✔There should be a focus on improving the clinician's well-
being as a means to improve patient care and reduce burnout among residents, fellows,
and practicing physicians.
SURE A+
✔✔permanent complement increases - ✔✔Long-term increases in the number of
residents that require prior approval from the Review Committee.
✔✔specialty-specific instructions - ✔✔Guidelines for requesting complement increases
found on the ACGME website.
✔✔community health focus - ✔✔A program emphasis aimed at preparing residents to
address public health needs.
✔✔physician-scientists preparation - ✔✔A program focus designed to train residents in
both clinical practice and research.
✔✔Resident Responsibilities - ✔✔Delineation of resident responsibilities for patient
care, progressive responsibility for patient management, and graded supervision.
✔✔PGY Level - ✔✔These responsibilities may generally be described by PGY level and
specifically by Milestones progress as determined by the Clinical Competency
Committee.
✔✔Competency-Based Education - ✔✔This approach encourages the transition to
competency-based education.
✔✔Structured Didactic Activities - ✔✔A broad range of structured didactic activities that
residents will participate in.
✔✔Core Didactic Activities - ✔✔Programs should define core didactic activities for
which time is protected and the circumstances in which residents may be excused from
these didactic activities.
, ✔✔Examples of Didactic Activities - ✔✔Didactic activities may include, but are not
limited to, lectures, conferences, courses, labs, asynchronous learning, simulations,
drills, case discussions, grand rounds, didactic teaching, and education in critical
appraisal of medical evidence.
✔✔Patient Safety-Related Goals - ✔✔Formal educational activities that promote patient
safety-related goals, tools, and techniques.
✔✔Compassion, Integrity, and Respect - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate competence
in compassion, integrity, and respect for others.
✔✔Responsiveness to Patient Needs - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate
responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest.
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate competence in cultural humility.
✔✔Respect for Patient Privacy - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate respect for patient
privacy and autonomy.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate accountability to patients, society,
and the profession.
✔✔Diversity in Patient Populations - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate respect and
responsiveness to diverse patient populations, including but not limited to diversity in
gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, national origin, socioeconomic status,
and sexual orientation.
✔✔Personal and Professional Well-Being - ✔✔Residents must demonstrate the ability
to recognize and develop a plan for one's own personal and professional well-being.
✔✔Conflict or Duality of Interest - ✔✔Residents must appropriately disclose and
address conflict or duality of interest.
✔✔Quality Patient Care - ✔✔Residents must be able to provide patient care that is
patient- and family-centered, compassionate, equitable, appropriate, and effective for
the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
✔✔Improving Population Health - ✔✔Quality patient care is safe, effective, timely,
efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and designed to improve population health, while
reducing per capita costs.
✔✔Clinician's Well-Being - ✔✔There should be a focus on improving the clinician's well-
being as a means to improve patient care and reduce burnout among residents, fellows,
and practicing physicians.
