Common  Program Requirements
core accreditation requirements for all specialties

Specialty Program Requirements
additional specialty-specific accreditation requirements

Educational Highlights of Common Program Requirements

Curriculum

• Goals and objectives are distributed to residents and faculty and reviewed with residents prior to rotations.
• The curriculum plan is well organized and effective and provides residents with increasing responsibility.
• Residents are required to obtain competence in the six competency domains.

Assessment

• Assessment of a resident’s competence is accurate and timely.
• Regular and timely feedback to residents including semi-annual written evaluations is provided.
• Assessment results are used to improve residents’ performance.
• A final evaluation at the end of residency stating residents are able to practice competently and independently without supervision is provided.

Program Evaluation

• At least annually, educational programs must be evaluated.
• At least annually, the program must evaluate faculty performance as it pertains to the resident education program.
• Formal documented annual meeting of at least the program director, representative faculty and one resident to review program goals and objectives and the effectiveness with which they are achieved.
• An action plan to correct deficiencies should be prepared and approved by faculty and documented in the minutes of the meeting.
• The program should use resident performance and outcome assessment (including scores on certification examinations.) in its evaluation of the educational effectiveness of the residency program.