Join Logan and Dr. Culican, Designated Institutional Official at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as they discuss preparing for the ACGME Self-Study and utilizing the Program Evaluation Committee (PEC).

Links

• Podcast Website
• Program Director Website
• For the full transcript, click here
• ACGME Self Study Page
• Email gme@umn.edu for help with the self-study

Question and Time

• Besides members of the program evaluation committee, what other members should be included on this self-study group? 01:31
• How did you bring up asking a patient to join the self-study group? 03:36
• Where do you start in self-study? 05:01
• What was your timeline from getting the group together to finishing it and submitting it? 06:51
• When you did this self-study, like what seemed to work best for you? 07:48
• Was there anything that you found surprising during this process or anything that you thought I'm not going to do this way again? 08:18
• Did you have to delegate certain tasks to a certain group of people or just one person in general? And how did you know to make sure everybody was staying on track? 09:34
• How can Annual Program Evaluations be either phrased, rewritten, or put in a way that streamlines the self-study process? 10:30
• Are there differences between the self-study and the annual program evaluation? 12:05
• How do programs come up with future program aims that maybe the ACGME is looking for, or their program is needing? 14:31
• Is the ACGME looking for anything specific when they're reviewing the self-study? 17:02
• How do you manage and store all the data to get ready for your self-study? 18:01
• After you finish and submit the self-study to the ACGME, do they come back in a year or two to see how your progress is going on achieving the program aims? 20:59
• Besides the ACGME, are there any other resources that the University of Minnesota has for programs needing to do self-study? 21:46