ACGME Terms
Academic Appointment Right Ans - An appointment to a faculty category
(e.g. professor, Associate Professor, Adjunct Clinical Instructor, etc.) of a
degree-granting (e.g. BS, BA, MA, MD, DO, PhD, etc.) school, college, or
university.
Accreditation Right Ans - A voluntary process of evaluation and review
based on published standards and following a prescribed process, performed
by a non-governmental agency of peers.
Accreditation Data System (ADS) Right Ans - The Web ADS is an online
service of ACGME that allows authorized program directors of accredited
graduate medical education programs to input limited amounts of Program
Information data to servers maintained by the ACGME or on its behalf.
Applicant Right Ans - An MD or DO invited to interview with a GME
program.
Assessment Right Ans - An ongoing process of gathering and interpreting
information about a learner's knowledge, skills, and/or behavior.
At-Home Call Right Ans - Same as Pager Call. A call taken from outside the
assigned site. Time in the hospital, exclusive of travel time, counts against the
80 hours per week limit but does not restart the clock for time off between
scheduled in-house duty periods. At-Home Call may not be scheduled on the
resident's one free day per week (averaged over four weeks).
Categorical Resident [see "Graduate Year 1"] Right Ans - A resident who
enters a program with the objective of completing the entire program.
Certification Right Ans - A process to provide assurance to the public that a
certified medical specialist has successfully completed an approved
educational program and an evaluation, including an examination process
designed to assess the knowledge, experience and skills requisite to the
provision of high quality care in a particular specialty.
,Chief Resident Right Ans - Typically, a position in the final year of the
residency or in the year after the residency is completed (e.g., internal
medicine and pediatrics).
Citation Right Ans - A finding of a Review Committee that a program or an
institution is failing to comply substantially with a particular accreditation
standard or ACGME policy or procedure.
Clarifying Information Right Ans - A Review Committee may request
clarifying information that specifies information to be provided, including a
due date for the clarifying information.
Clinical Right Ans - Refers to the practice of medicine in which physicians
assess patients (in person or virtually) or populations in order to diagnose,
treat, and prevent disease using their expert judgment. It also refers to
physicians who contribute to the care of patients by providing clinical
decision support and information systems, laboratory, imaging, or related
studies.
Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) Right Ans - A required body
comprising of three or more members of the active teaching faculty who is
advisory to the program director and reviews the progress of all residents in
the program.
Clinical Learning Environment Review Right Ans - The ACGME Clinical
Learning Environment (CLER) provides the profession and the public a broad
view of sponsoring institution's initiatives to enhance the safety of the
learning environment and to determine how residents are engaged in the
patient safety and quality improvement activities.
Clinical Responsibility/Workload Limits Right Ans - Reasonable maximum
levels of assigned work for residents/fellows consistent with ensuring both
patient safety and a quality educational experience. Such workloads, and their
levels of intensity, are specialty-specific and must be thoroughly examined by
the RRCs before inclusion in their respective program requirements.
Clinical Supervision Right Ans - A required faculty activity involving the
oversight and direction of patient care activities that are provided by
residents/fellows.
, Combined Specialty Programs Right Ans - Programs recognized by two or
more separate boards to provide GME in a particular combined specialty. Each
combined specialty program is made up of two or three programs, accredited
separately by the ACGME at the same institution.
Common Program Requirements (CPR) Right Ans - The set of ACGME
requirements that apply to all specialties and subspecialties.
Competencies Right Ans - Specific knowledge, skills, behaviors and
attitudes and the appropriate educational experiences required of residents to
complete GME programs. These include patient care, medical knowledge,
practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication
skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
Complement Right Ans - The maximum number of residents or fellows
approved by a Residency Review Committee per year and/or per program
based upon availability of adequate resources.
Compliance Right Ans - A program's or institution's adherence to a set of
prescribed requirements.
Conditional independence Right Ans - Graded, progressive responsibility
for patient care with defined oversight.
Confidential Right Ans - Information intended to be disclosed only to an
authorized person; that an evaluation is deemed confidential does not imply
that the source of the evaluation is anonymous.
Consortium Right Ans - An association of two or more organizations,
hospitals, or institutions that have come together to pursue common
objectives (e.g., GME).
Continued Accreditation Right Ans - A status of "Continued Accreditation"
is conferred when a Review Committee determines that a program or
sponsoring institution has demonstrated substantial compliance with
requirements.
Academic Appointment Right Ans - An appointment to a faculty category
(e.g. professor, Associate Professor, Adjunct Clinical Instructor, etc.) of a
degree-granting (e.g. BS, BA, MA, MD, DO, PhD, etc.) school, college, or
university.
Accreditation Right Ans - A voluntary process of evaluation and review
based on published standards and following a prescribed process, performed
by a non-governmental agency of peers.
Accreditation Data System (ADS) Right Ans - The Web ADS is an online
service of ACGME that allows authorized program directors of accredited
graduate medical education programs to input limited amounts of Program
Information data to servers maintained by the ACGME or on its behalf.
Applicant Right Ans - An MD or DO invited to interview with a GME
program.
Assessment Right Ans - An ongoing process of gathering and interpreting
information about a learner's knowledge, skills, and/or behavior.
At-Home Call Right Ans - Same as Pager Call. A call taken from outside the
assigned site. Time in the hospital, exclusive of travel time, counts against the
80 hours per week limit but does not restart the clock for time off between
scheduled in-house duty periods. At-Home Call may not be scheduled on the
resident's one free day per week (averaged over four weeks).
Categorical Resident [see "Graduate Year 1"] Right Ans - A resident who
enters a program with the objective of completing the entire program.
Certification Right Ans - A process to provide assurance to the public that a
certified medical specialist has successfully completed an approved
educational program and an evaluation, including an examination process
designed to assess the knowledge, experience and skills requisite to the
provision of high quality care in a particular specialty.
,Chief Resident Right Ans - Typically, a position in the final year of the
residency or in the year after the residency is completed (e.g., internal
medicine and pediatrics).
Citation Right Ans - A finding of a Review Committee that a program or an
institution is failing to comply substantially with a particular accreditation
standard or ACGME policy or procedure.
Clarifying Information Right Ans - A Review Committee may request
clarifying information that specifies information to be provided, including a
due date for the clarifying information.
Clinical Right Ans - Refers to the practice of medicine in which physicians
assess patients (in person or virtually) or populations in order to diagnose,
treat, and prevent disease using their expert judgment. It also refers to
physicians who contribute to the care of patients by providing clinical
decision support and information systems, laboratory, imaging, or related
studies.
Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) Right Ans - A required body
comprising of three or more members of the active teaching faculty who is
advisory to the program director and reviews the progress of all residents in
the program.
Clinical Learning Environment Review Right Ans - The ACGME Clinical
Learning Environment (CLER) provides the profession and the public a broad
view of sponsoring institution's initiatives to enhance the safety of the
learning environment and to determine how residents are engaged in the
patient safety and quality improvement activities.
Clinical Responsibility/Workload Limits Right Ans - Reasonable maximum
levels of assigned work for residents/fellows consistent with ensuring both
patient safety and a quality educational experience. Such workloads, and their
levels of intensity, are specialty-specific and must be thoroughly examined by
the RRCs before inclusion in their respective program requirements.
Clinical Supervision Right Ans - A required faculty activity involving the
oversight and direction of patient care activities that are provided by
residents/fellows.
, Combined Specialty Programs Right Ans - Programs recognized by two or
more separate boards to provide GME in a particular combined specialty. Each
combined specialty program is made up of two or three programs, accredited
separately by the ACGME at the same institution.
Common Program Requirements (CPR) Right Ans - The set of ACGME
requirements that apply to all specialties and subspecialties.
Competencies Right Ans - Specific knowledge, skills, behaviors and
attitudes and the appropriate educational experiences required of residents to
complete GME programs. These include patient care, medical knowledge,
practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication
skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
Complement Right Ans - The maximum number of residents or fellows
approved by a Residency Review Committee per year and/or per program
based upon availability of adequate resources.
Compliance Right Ans - A program's or institution's adherence to a set of
prescribed requirements.
Conditional independence Right Ans - Graded, progressive responsibility
for patient care with defined oversight.
Confidential Right Ans - Information intended to be disclosed only to an
authorized person; that an evaluation is deemed confidential does not imply
that the source of the evaluation is anonymous.
Consortium Right Ans - An association of two or more organizations,
hospitals, or institutions that have come together to pursue common
objectives (e.g., GME).
Continued Accreditation Right Ans - A status of "Continued Accreditation"
is conferred when a Review Committee determines that a program or
sponsoring institution has demonstrated substantial compliance with
requirements.
