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ACGME/ABS Case Log Agreement
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ACGME Communications
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April 14, 2006 |
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ACGME/ABS Case Log Agreement |
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As you are aware, ACGME requires each surgery residency program to send to it a validated end of final year case log summary report (from the ACGME Case Log Data System) for each surgery resident completing a residency program. The American Board of Surgery (ABS) requires that each surgery resident applying for certification send the same report to it.
ABS has requested that ACGME send to it from the Case Log Data System (a) interim case log data and (b) a copy of the validated end of final year case log summary report, for each chief surgery resident. The interim data would be sent to ABS on May 1 and June 1 (as of 12:00 am on each date) as to each chief resident. The copy of the validated end of final year case log summary report would be sent to ABS shortly after its receipt by ACGME. It would expedite the ABS certification process if these reports were sent directly to ABS by ACGME. (Please note that program directors and residents can query the ACGME Case Log Data System for case log figures as of midnight on May 1 and June 1 in order to determine what interim figures have been reported to ABS.)
ACGME can accommodate this request, but it wants to do so only with the authorization of each resident and institution. To do this, ACGME intends to change its Case Log Data Access Agreement effective April 15, 2006, as affecting 2005-2006 surgical case log data as well as data for residency years thereafter.
The purpose of this notice is to alert you to this arrangement and to language in the Case Log Access Agreement as follows:
7. Users who are resident physicians recognize and agree that ACGME may forward (a) one or more sets of data comprising resident physician’s case log record and (b) a copy of a validated end of final year case log summary report, to the American Board of Surgery for its use. Users who are not resident physicians agree to this Section 7 as to resident physician Users in residency programs affiliated with their institutions.
If a resident or an institution does not want ACGME to send the interim case log data and a copy of a validated end of final year case log summary report to ABS, the resident or institution may choose not to do so. Instead, an alternative Case Log Data Access Agreement will apply to accommodate this decision.
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