TAGME CORRECT EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Formative Evaluation - ✔✔Assessment of a resident/fellow with the primary purpose
of providing feedback for improvement, and for reinforcement of skills and behaviors
that meet established criteria and standards without passing a judgment in the form of a
permanently recorded grade of score.
✔✔Graduate medical education - ✔✔The period of didactic and clinical education in a
medical specialty or sub-specialty which follows the completion of undergraduate
medical education and which prepares physicians for the independent practice of
medicine in that specialty or sub-specialty. Also referred to as residency or fellowship
education.
✔✔In-house call - ✔✔Clinical and educational work hours, beyond the scheduled
workday, when residents are required to be immediately available within an assigned
site, as needed, for clinical responsibilities. In-house call does not include night float,
being on call from home, or regularly scheduled overnight duties.
✔✔Institutional review - ✔✔The process of determining whether a Sponsoring Institution
offering graduate medical education programs is in substantial compliance with the
Institutional Requirements.
✔✔International medical graduate (IMG) - ✔✔A graduate from a medical school outside
the US and Canada. IMG's may be citizens of the US who chose to be educated
elsewhere or non-citizens who are admitted to the US by US Immigration authorities.
✔✔Interprofessional team - ✔✔The physicians and other health care professionals,
including nurses, pharmacists, case workers, physical therapists, etc., as appropriate,
assigned to the delivery of care for an individual patient.
✔✔In-training examination - ✔✔A formative examination used to evaluate
resident/fellow progress in meeting the educational objectives of a residency/fellowship
, program, including but not limited to those offered by certification boards or specialty
societies.
✔✔Letter of Notification - ✔✔The official communication from a Review or Recognition
Committee that states an action taken by the committee.
✔✔Milestones - ✔✔Description of performance levels residents and fellows are
expected to demonstrate for skills, knowledge, and behaviors in the six ACGME Core
Competency domains.
✔✔Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work performed
beyond a resident's or fellow's clinical experience and education hours and additional to
the work required for successful completion of the program.
✔✔External Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work
performed outside the site where the resident or fellow is in training and any of its
related participating sites.
✔✔Internal Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work
performed within the site where the resident or fellow is in training or at any of its related
participating sites.
✔✔Multidisciplinary Subspecialty Program - ✔✔A subspecialty is that is co-sponsored
by multiple specialties and is accredited by multiple Residency Review Committees.
✔✔Must - ✔✔A term used to identify a requirement which is mandatory or done without
fail when the requirement is categorized as "core" or "outcome", and in each of the
following additional circumstances regardless of the categorization assigned to the
requirement: Accreditation Purposes or Recognition Purposes - When a "must"
requirement is categorized as "detail", a program holding a status of Continued
Accreditation or Continued Recognition may utilize alternative or innovative approaches
in meeting the associated "core" requirement(s), where applicable.
✔✔Near miss - ✔✔An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only
because of chance.
✔✔Night Float - ✔✔A rotation or other structured educational experience designed
either to eliminate in-house call or to assist other residents/fellows during the night.
Residents/fellows assigned to night float are assigned on-site duty during evening/night
shifts, are responsible for admitting or cross-covering patients until morning, and do not
have daytime assignments. Such a rotation must have an educational focus.
✔✔One day off - ✔✔One continuous 24-hour period free from all administrative, clinical,
and educational activities.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Formative Evaluation - ✔✔Assessment of a resident/fellow with the primary purpose
of providing feedback for improvement, and for reinforcement of skills and behaviors
that meet established criteria and standards without passing a judgment in the form of a
permanently recorded grade of score.
✔✔Graduate medical education - ✔✔The period of didactic and clinical education in a
medical specialty or sub-specialty which follows the completion of undergraduate
medical education and which prepares physicians for the independent practice of
medicine in that specialty or sub-specialty. Also referred to as residency or fellowship
education.
✔✔In-house call - ✔✔Clinical and educational work hours, beyond the scheduled
workday, when residents are required to be immediately available within an assigned
site, as needed, for clinical responsibilities. In-house call does not include night float,
being on call from home, or regularly scheduled overnight duties.
✔✔Institutional review - ✔✔The process of determining whether a Sponsoring Institution
offering graduate medical education programs is in substantial compliance with the
Institutional Requirements.
✔✔International medical graduate (IMG) - ✔✔A graduate from a medical school outside
the US and Canada. IMG's may be citizens of the US who chose to be educated
elsewhere or non-citizens who are admitted to the US by US Immigration authorities.
✔✔Interprofessional team - ✔✔The physicians and other health care professionals,
including nurses, pharmacists, case workers, physical therapists, etc., as appropriate,
assigned to the delivery of care for an individual patient.
✔✔In-training examination - ✔✔A formative examination used to evaluate
resident/fellow progress in meeting the educational objectives of a residency/fellowship
, program, including but not limited to those offered by certification boards or specialty
societies.
✔✔Letter of Notification - ✔✔The official communication from a Review or Recognition
Committee that states an action taken by the committee.
✔✔Milestones - ✔✔Description of performance levels residents and fellows are
expected to demonstrate for skills, knowledge, and behaviors in the six ACGME Core
Competency domains.
✔✔Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work performed
beyond a resident's or fellow's clinical experience and education hours and additional to
the work required for successful completion of the program.
✔✔External Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work
performed outside the site where the resident or fellow is in training and any of its
related participating sites.
✔✔Internal Moonlighting - ✔✔Voluntary, compensated, medically-related work
performed within the site where the resident or fellow is in training or at any of its related
participating sites.
✔✔Multidisciplinary Subspecialty Program - ✔✔A subspecialty is that is co-sponsored
by multiple specialties and is accredited by multiple Residency Review Committees.
✔✔Must - ✔✔A term used to identify a requirement which is mandatory or done without
fail when the requirement is categorized as "core" or "outcome", and in each of the
following additional circumstances regardless of the categorization assigned to the
requirement: Accreditation Purposes or Recognition Purposes - When a "must"
requirement is categorized as "detail", a program holding a status of Continued
Accreditation or Continued Recognition may utilize alternative or innovative approaches
in meeting the associated "core" requirement(s), where applicable.
✔✔Near miss - ✔✔An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only
because of chance.
✔✔Night Float - ✔✔A rotation or other structured educational experience designed
either to eliminate in-house call or to assist other residents/fellows during the night.
Residents/fellows assigned to night float are assigned on-site duty during evening/night
shifts, are responsible for admitting or cross-covering patients until morning, and do not
have daytime assignments. Such a rotation must have an educational focus.
✔✔One day off - ✔✔One continuous 24-hour period free from all administrative, clinical,
and educational activities.
