Implementation of a College-wide GME Core Curriculum
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Academic Medicine
- Vol. 76 (4), 331-336
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200104000-00007
Abstract
As health care delivery and its associated costs have been scrutinized carefully over the past decade, educational institutions have been expected to demonstrate how a particular educational requirement such as residency training brings benefit to the purchasers and users of their health care services. As part of this trend, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recently enacted new accreditation standards mandating the inclusion of curricular elements that expose residents to basic concepts and principles of the non-technical areas of health care across a variety of topics, including ethics, cost containment, socioeconomics, medical—legal issues, communication skills, research design, statistics, and critical review of the medical literature. The authors report the efforts at the Medical University of South Carolina to overcome obstacles and successfully implement an institution-wide core curriculum program, dealing with the kinds of topics mentioned above, across 47 specialty and subspecialty programs with over 500 residents and fellows. The seminal events and critical strategies are described, along with lessons learned along the way. The following were key elements to success: (1) adhering to a strategic plan assigning oversight of residency education to the graduate medical education (GME) office; (2) gaining strong support from the dean and other college officials; (3) creating a stepwise centralization of residencies in college via the GME committee; (5) making the first core curriculum element one that had an excellent chance to succeed; (6) having core curriculum sessions begin in evenings and weekends to not interfere with regular curriculum, but later, when the value of the curriculum became evident to departments, moving the sessions to be within the week; (7) having the philosophy of the GME office be to maintain a flexible approach and serve departments.Keywords
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