Abstract
ABSTRACTThe Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s required Annual Program Review of Educational Effectiveness (APREE) has helped us improve our program and change its culture to one of continuous quality improvement. This report outlines our systematic process and describes specific outcomes it has produced over a 10-year period. We identified ways to enhance our APREE after reading articles that described various ways to conduct the process found in a PubMed and OvidSP search and relevant policies from our local Graduate Medical Education Office. After discussing options, we incorporated new ideas into our APREE and tasked our Program Evaluation Committee to track outcomes from objectives developed by faculty and residents during each APREE. Objectives from faculty and residents in 10 years of our APREE led to major improvements (e.g., increased board pass rate) in our program. In addition, the enhanced APREE process gradually changed our residency’s culture to one that embraces continuous quality improvement. A systematic APREE process can engage residents and faculty in improving specific components of a residency. Besides providing outcomes for Web Ads and Self-Study items, the APREE models quality improvement techniques to residents, involves a wide array of stakeholders, and helps program stakeholders embrace continuous quality improvement.
Highlights
For over a decade, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and institutional policies required residencies to conduct an Annual Program Review of Educational Effectiveness (APREE) [1–3]
Process improvement and leadership are essential in managing graduate medical education curricula, demonstrated by new requirements, the New Accreditation System including the 10-year Self-study and the introduction of the Milestones [5–7]
This paper describes the APREE process our program implemented to engage stakeholders in program ownership and implement program improvements that fit with the ACGME’s pursuit of excellence [15,16]
Summary
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and institutional policies required residencies to conduct an Annual Program Review of Educational Effectiveness (APREE) [1–3]. Conducted and monitored by the Program Evaluation Committee (PEC), the APREE is intended to be a process improvement activity that helps programs evolve and improve[4]. Detailed guidance on conducting APREEs from the ACGME and institutional Graduate Medical Education Offices is helpful[2], and authors have described how they use it to conduct their reviews [8–14]. While our APREE met the requirement, the faculty and residents failed to fully embrace the process because they did not recognize their suggestions produced meaningful change. This paper describes the APREE process our program implemented to engage stakeholders in program ownership and implement program improvements that fit with the ACGME’s pursuit of excellence [15,16]
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