The Challenges of Program Accreditation Decisions in 2021 for the ACMGE Review Committee for Surgery

John R Potts 3rd; Pamela A Lipsett; Jeffrey B Matthews

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2020.08.023

The Challenges of Program Accreditation Decisions in 2021 for the ACMGE Review Committee for Surgery

J Surg Educ. 2021 Mar-Apr;78(2):394-399. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2020.08.023. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Authors

John R Potts 3rd¹, Pamela A Lipsett², Jeffrey B Matthews³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgical Critical Care, Surgery John Hopkins Medicine; Department of Surgery; Division of Acute Care Surgery; Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: jrpotts@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgical Critical Care, Surgery John Hopkins Medicine; Department of Surgery; Division of Acute Care Surgery; Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

Through only a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the daily activities and education of surgical residents and fellows and the programs in which they are enrolled. The pandemic has also forced many changes for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and its Review Committee for Surgery. This article details some of those changes and their effect on the process of conferring 2021 accreditation decisions by the Review Committee.

Keywords: ACGME; case logs; pandemic; resident survey; review committee for surgery; site visits.

MeSH terms

Accreditation / standards*
Advisory Committees*
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Education, Medical, Graduate / standards*
General Surgery / education*
Humans
Internship and Residency
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology