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  • Titulo Artículo: The single graduate medical education accreditation system
  • Resumen: In 2014, the American Osteopathic Association, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding, which creates a single accreditation system for graduate medical education. The present article outlines the history of the agreement and the 5-year transition process, which begins July 1, 2015, and ends June 30, 2020. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2015;115(4):251-255 doi:10.7556/jaoa.2015.049 Currently, 2 graduate medical education (GME) accreditation authorities are recognized in the United States: the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). For more than 30 years, osteopathic physicians (ie, DOs) have had the choice of graduate training under either authority. Graduates could enter into ACGME training programs via 1 of 3 pathways: (1) directly after graduating from an osteopathic medical college, (2) after completing a 1-year osteopathic traditional rotating internship, or (3) for sub-specialty training after completing AOA-accredited training in a specialty field (eg, training in an AOA-accredited orthopedic surgery program and then an ACGME hand surgery subspecialty program). In 2009, the ACGME began to restructure its accreditation system to be based on educational outcomes related to 6 core competencies and concluded that it could not ensure the competence of the physician unless that individual had progressed through its new accreditation system from the beginning. Thus, in the fall of 2011, the ACGME proposed new Common Program Requirements that would have restricted access of physicians moving from non-ACGME (and Canadian-accredited) training programs to ACGME programs beginning July 1, 2016. To address this situation and to discuss potential remedies, a joint task force of representatives from the AOA, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), and the ACGME first met in early 2012. After many months, the task force concluded that the best solution for trainees, the public, and others was the creation of a single accreditation system for GME. The framework of and transition to a single accreditation system are described in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which was signed by the AOA, AACOM, and the ACGME in early 2014.1 The present article describes key features of the MOU (including the 5-year transition and the organizational structure of the new system), the benefits of a single accreditation system, the AOA's monitoring of the implementation process, and next steps.
  • Autores: James Swartwout, Maura Biszewski, Cheryl Gross, Boyd R Buser, .
  • Titulo Revista: The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, .
  • Numero: 4
  • Volumen:115
  • Fecha de publicación: 2015.
  • Base de Datos Bibliográfica: Medline-PubMed , .
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  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Página Inicial: 251 Página Final: 255
  • ISBN: 1945-1997