AHME Kindle winner
Congrats to Christine Weare, CDA from Prime for winning the HCPro Kindle raffle drawing at the AHME Conference last week!
Thank you to everyone who visited our booth and said hello. During the week, I will post snippets of information from many of the AHME sessions, so stay tuned!
Live from AHME
The 2012 Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME) Educational Institute conference is set to kickoff tomorrow and HCPro will be there.
If you are attending AHME, drop by our booth and say ‘hello’ to us. Ask about our boot camps, see our display, or just come by and say ‘hello’ to us.
Whether you go or not, I will post highlights on this blog from a selection of AHME sessions, so stay tuned!
Study: Simulation training improves resident skills
Simulating real-life procedures comes in handy during real-life procedures, apparantly.
A study conducted by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit conducted a study of 15 second-year residents in the Emergency Department. The residents conducted three simulated resuscitations last year at the Henry Ford Center for Simulation, Education and Research. Two months after the simulations, the same residents were evaluated during three live resuscitations to compare to the simulated experiences, according to a news release on the hospital’s website.
According to the news release, four areas of critical decision-making skills improved as a result of the simulation:
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Situational awareness
- Communication
Click here to read the entire press release.
NAS watch: ACGME unveils first draft of new program requirements for three more specialties
The ACGME unveiled the specialty-specific categorization of updated program requirements earlier this week (See previous post) in four specialties. Three more specialties debut on their Next Accreditation System site with updated requirements and impact statements…
Just remember, this is only the rough draft. Click on the above categories to suggest changes to the categorization of the requirements. The deadline to comment on these three is June 27.
First draft of program requirements for four specialties
As stated on an April 18 post on this blog, the ACGME is categorizing the Common Program Requirements in preparation of the Next Accreditation System (NAS). The requirements are labeled as one of three parts: core, detail, and outcome.
To coincide with this move, specialties, and their subspecialties, must categorize specialty-specific requirements as well. The ACGME’s NAS-based site has first drafts of updated program requirements and updated impact statements in:
This is only Phase 1 of the process. The ACGME welcomes comments/concerns on the labeling (and labeling only) of the specialty and subspecialty requirements. The deadline to comment is June 21.
