Editor's Picks In a monumental decision last week, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. This finding ultimately upheld DACA, protecting from deportation the nearly 30,000 healthcare professionals who are currently studying, training, or practicing medicine. As COVID-19 spreads throughout the U.S., healthcare organizations face unique challenges to support their workers and keep patients safe. In response, we’ve launched an Acute Care Coronavirus response page that provides resources and solutions for hospitals and health systems as they navigate COVID-19.
You can also visit our forum dedicated to COVID-19 discussions to ask your questions and share best practices with your colleagues. Citing self-defense, a family medicine resident at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha allegedly shot her husband twice in the chest. Kathleen E. Jourdan is being held without bail on a second-degree murder charge. The person-to-person transmissibility of COVID-19 droplets when people talk, cough, or sneeze warrants travel restrictions, social distancing, and the wearing of face coverings. Therefore, GME programs must explore alternative avenues to replace in-person candidate interviews during the COVID-19 pandemic and possible similar situations in the future. Marketing Spotlight The Guide for Graduate Medical Education Offices and Program Coordinators provides the office of graduate medical education (GME) and program coordinators the guidance need to successfully run a GME program together. Author Vicki Hamm, C-TAGME, provides how-to guidance and tools for implementing ACGME Institutional Requirements, institutional policies, crafting resident/fellow contracts, managing evaluations, maintaining program accreditation, and other daily duties. This book contains sample policies and forms to customize for your institution.
This book will guide your GME operations so that you can achieve compliance with ACGME requirements; support your program directors, and faculty; and most importantly, produce trainees who become skilled physicians as they move from the educational continuum to the independent practice of medicine.
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