ACGME Board approves program requirement revisions
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CHICAGO, Feb. 20, 2009 – The Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved revisions to two sets of program requirements at its winter Board meeting, which was held Feb. 7-10 at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Fla.

The Board approved:

• focused and minor revisions to the program requirements for diagnostic radiology;
• minor revision to the program requirements for allergy and immunology.

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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits approximately 8,500 residency programs in 127 specialties and subspecialties educating 108,000 residents. Its mission is to improve health care by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education through accreditation.