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Policies and Procedures for Residency Education in the Subspecialties of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- The initial application for a subspecialty program will not require an on-site survey, but will require submission of all application materials and information signed by the director of the subspecialty program and the director of the accredited sponsoring program in a relevant core specialty such as anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, internal medicine, neurological surgery, neurology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, surgery, or urology. The Residency Review Committee for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (RRC) will take initial action based on a "paper review" of the program, namely, a review without survey.
- Subsequent review of subspecialty programs will be in conjunction with the survey and review of the core program. A separate set of forms will have to be completed by the subspecialty program director. In special cases determined by the RRC, the subspecialty program will be surveyed and reviewed separately. The RRC will also entertain interim requests and, on occasion, ask for interim progress reports.
- The Residency Review Committee will designate programs as being accredited or not accredited. No further delineation of accreditation categories will be utilized. The accreditation of a program will be directly tied to that of the core. If the core program is subsequently accredited on a probationary basis, this is simultaneously a warning to the related subspecialty program that accreditation is in jeopardy. Withdrawal of accreditation of the core program will result in a simultaneous loss of accreditation of the subspecialty program.
- If the core program remains in good standing but the RRC judges the subspecialty program to be in noncompliance with the applicable program requirements, a warning will be issued. If these areas of noncompliance are not corrected, accreditation may be withdrawn from the subspecialty program. The Procedures for Proposed Adverse Actions and the Procedures for Appeal of Adverse Actions may be utilized by programs from which the accreditation has been withdrawn in an action separate from withdrawal of accreditation of the core program.
- Inquiries about accreditation of subspecialty programs should be directed to the Executive Secretary of the Residency Review Committee for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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