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Frequent Anesthesiology Citations
Evaluations: The residents are not evaluated at the end of each rotation. There is no written evaluation by residents of the faculty and/or program. Scholarly activity: The faculty list few publications for the last 5 years. The program provides little or no protected academic time. PACU: There is little organized teaching in the PACU by the anesthesiology faculty. Residents are assigned concurrently to other duties, eg, pulled from the PACU to assist in the OR, respond to codes throughout the hospital, attend acute pain rounds. The PACU assignment is not two contiguous weeks. Critical Care: There is no active involvement in the units by anesthesiologists qualified in critical care medicine, either in patient management or resident teaching and supervision. Resident Complement: The program has exceeded the approved number of positions without RRC approval. Clinical Experience (logs): The logs show uneven distribution of certain types of cases among the residents. The residents have not met the minimum required experience with certain types of cases at the end of training. The resident logs are not regularly monitored by the program director for completion or accuracy. Goals and Objectives: The goals and objectives are not sufficiently detailed. Goals and objectives have not been developed for all subspecialty rotations. The document has not been distributed to the residents. Affiliation Agreements: The agreements have not been signed by both parties or are not updated. All necessary agreements were not included with the PIF. Integration agreements do not specify the authority of the program director to make all faculty and resident appointments in the integrated hospital. Competencies: The program does not demonstrate that the competencies have been incorporated into the curriculum or that appropriate evaluation tools are being developed. Residents are unfamiliar with the ACGME Outcomes Initiative. |
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