CHICAGO, July 10, 2005 – Patricia M. Surdyk, PhD, has been named executive director of the Institutional Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Dr. Surdyk will direct the activities of the ACGME’s Institutional Review Committee, which evaluates and accredits institutions that sponsor graduate medical education programs. She will also serve as a liaison between the IRC and the 27 residency review committees of the ACGME, which review programs in 119 specialties and subspecialties; lead projects to improve the quality of sponsoring institutions; and work with the executive directors of the review committees to refine institutional and common program requirements.
“Dr. Surdyk has extensive experience in and knowledge of graduate medical education,” said Jeanne Heard, MD, director of RRC activities. “Her familiarity with residency program accreditation, plus her knowledge of the ACGME General Competencies and experience as interim executive director of the IRC make her an ideal person to facilitate the committee’s activities as it begins accrediting sponsoring institutions.”
Starting this October, the IRC will accredit sponsoring institution, instead of granting favorable or unfavorable reviews.
Dr. Surdyk, who holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction, served previously as a senior project manager in the Department of Research. She developed learning materials for and gave many presentations on the ACGME Outcome Project, an initiative to shift the accreditation emphasis to educational outcomes. Other positions she has held at the ACGME are associate executive director of the residency review committees for internal medicine and psychiatry and research associate for the RRC for Surgery. Before joining the ACGME, Dr. Surdyk was a director of medical education with responsibility for both graduate and continuing medical education and served as program director for medical education at the American Hospital Association.
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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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