II.
Up one level to ACGME Institutional Requirements 2018
| II. | Institutional Resources | |||||||||
| II.A. | Institutional GME Infrastructure and Operations: The Sponsoring Institution must ensure that: | |||||||||
| II.A.1. | the DIO has sufficient financial support and protected time to effectively carry out his or her educational, administrative, and leadership responsibilities; | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.A.2. | the DIO engages in professional development applicable to his or her responsibilities as an educational leader; and, | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.A.3. | sufficient salary support and resources are provided for effective GME administration. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.B. | Program Administration: The Sponsoring Institution, in collaboration with each ACGME-accredited program, must ensure that: | |||||||||
| II.B.1. | the program director(s) has (have) sufficient financial support and protected time to effectively carry out his/her (their) educational, administrative, and leadership responsibilities, as described in the Institutional, Common, and specialty-/subspecialty-specific Program Requirements; | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.B.2. | the program(s) receives (receive) adequate support for core faculty members to ensure both effective supervision and quality resident/fellow education; | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.B.3. | the program director(s) and core faculty members engage in professional development applicable to their responsibilities as educational leaders; | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.B.4. | the program coordinator(s) has (have) sufficient support and time to effectively carry out his/her (their) responsibilities; and, | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.B.5. | resources, including space, technology, and supplies, are available to provide effective support for each of its ACGME-accredited programs. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.C. | Resident/Fellow Forum: The Sponsoring Institution with more than one program must ensure availability of an organization, council, town hall, or other platform that allows all residents/fellows from within and across the Sponsoring Institution’s ACGME-accredited programs to communicate and exchange information with other residents/fellows relevant to their ACGME-accredited programs and their learning and working environment. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.C.1. | Any resident/fellow from one of the Sponsoring Institution’s ACGME- accredited programs must have the opportunity to directly raise a concern to the forum. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.C.2. | Residents/fellows must have the option, at least in part, to conduct their forum without the DIO, faculty members, or other administrators present. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.C.3. | Residents/fellows must have the option to present concerns that arise from discussions at the forum to the DIO and GMEC. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.D. | Resident Salary and Benefits: The Sponsoring Institution, in collaboration with each of its ACGME-accredited programs and participating sites, must provide all residents/fellows with financial support and benefits to ensure that they are able to fulfill the responsibilities of their ACGME-accredited program(s). | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.E. | Educational Tools | |||||||||
| II.E.1. | Communication resources and technology: Faculty members and residents/fellows must have ready access to adequate communication resources and technological support. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.E.2. | Access to medical literature: Faculty members and residents/fellows must have ready access to specialty-/subspecialty-specific electronic medical literature databases and other current reference material in print or electronic format. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.F. | Support Services and Systems | |||||||||
| II.F.1. | The Sponsoring Institution must provide support services and develop health care delivery systems to minimize residents’/fellows’ work that is extraneous to their ACGME-accredited program(s)’ educational goals and objectives, and to ensure that residents’/fellows’ educational experience is not compromised by excessive reliance on residents/fellows to fulfill non-physician service obligations. These support services and systems must include: | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.F.1.a) | peripheral intravenous access placement, phlebotomy, laboratory, pathology and radiology services and patient transportation services provided in a manner appropriate to and consistent with educational objectives and to support high quality and safe patient care; and, | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.F.1.b) | medical records available at all participating sites to support high quality and safe patient care, residents’/fellows’ education, quality improvement and scholarly activities. | (Core) | ||||||||
| II.F.2. | REMOVED | |||||||||
| II.F.2.a) | REMOVED | |||||||||
| II.F.2.b) | REMOVED | |||||||||
| II.F.2.c) | REMOVED | |||||||||
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