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ACGME rolls out new accreditation system for medical residents
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is rolling out a new accreditation system for graduate medical education that will be implemented in seven programs by next year and in gastroenterology programs by 2014, according to a plan recently announced in The New England Journal of Medicine. The new system, referred to as the Next Accreditation System requires all programs to evaluate each of their trainees at six-month intervals using 30 to 36 educational milestones. The milestones will be based on the six competencies: patient care, medical knowledge, professionalism, interpersonal and communications skills, practice-based learning and improvement, and systems-based practice.More

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