CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 2004 – Jeanne K. Heard, MD, PhD, has been named the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s director of residency review committee activities.
Dr. Heard, an associate dean for graduate medical education and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, will join the ACGME in May. Dr. Heard will direct the ACGME’s 27 residency review committees and monitor and lead development of national accreditation standards for 7,900 ACGME-accredited residency programs.
Dr. Heard brings extensive experience in graduate medical education to her new position. In addition to serving as associate dean of graduate medical education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Heard has served as vice-chair of the ACGME’s institutional review committee, a member of the ACGME’s professionalism advisory group and chair of the Assn. of American Medical Colleges’ group on resident affairs. Dr. Heard, a board-certified internist, was also named one of Arkansas’ best doctors in a 1994 survey.
“The ACGME is fortunate to have attracted Jeanne Heard. She brings deep and broad experience in medical education, a serious commitment to improvement and sophisticated knowledge about the workings of graduate medical education,” said ACGME Executive Director David C. Leach, MD. “She also has excellent judgment. Our mission will be strengthened by her presence.”
Dr. Heard said she looks forward to working with the RRC executive directors and their staffs to continuously improve accreditation methods and processes.
“I look forward to communicating with other agencies and organizations about the work of the ACGME as we incorporate general competencies across all disciplines and incorporate educational outcomes into accreditation decisions,” said Dr. Heard.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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