Educational Innovations Project (EIP)

[Dr. J?]

We are extremely proud to announce that in the Spring of 2006, our program was one of 17 programs in the nation to be selected for the Educational Innovations Project (EIP).

The EIP was designed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) allowing select programs across the country to innovate in resident education.

Key features of our redesigned residency:
-Eliminating overnight on-call responsibilities on most services at University Hospital
-Additional elective time in the intern year
-Reducing the residents' burden of non-educational responsibilities by placing "transitions of care managers" (advanced nursing professionals) on each University Hospital ward team
-Residents provide ambulatory care as part of interprofessional teams to measure and improve quality of care through the Academic Chronic Care Model
-A learner-centered ambulatory curriculum with hands-on, procedure-oriented educational programs
-Creation of resident-centered learning portfolios which will facilitate preparation for fellowships or practice

We hope you will come to see firsthand the innovations in resident education in Cincinnati. Details about the EIP in Cincinnati are also available on our website at http://intmed.uc.edu.


Does anyone have any information about this program? I have never heard of it. How does this effect an intern's/resident's life?

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[TommyGunn04]

EIP is basically a new initiative by the ACGME that some of the top residency programs have applied for, which if granted allows them quite a bit of leeway to "break the mold" of traditional residency program training. Each program that has been granted EIP status is exempt from some of the more stringent requirements of the ACGME / RRC (Residency Review Committee) in their routine reviews, allowing them to try new innovations to improve training and trainee satisfaction over the next several years.

Duke is an EIP program as well, and has been implementing a new strategy for optimizing the ambulatory part of the curriculum, utilizing a "practice partnership" group practice model whereby several residents share a panel of patients and coordinate their care for each other during busy inpatient months. This allows residents to focus on inpatient care when required, and then more on ambulatory care during the intensive outpatient months, thereby minimizing pages from clinic patients on gen med months, etc. This is just one quick example of what one program is doing, among several things; they're all trying somewhat different changes from what I've heard.

I think it's a very exciting, promising initiative that will hopefully yield needed and productive improvements in residency training modalities.

 

[Dr. J?]

Thanks for the 411 TGunn. Anyone else have experience with this new initiative?

As I currently understand it there are 17 programs across the country that are involved in this:

http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/RRC_140/140_EIPindex.asp

Presentations from each program:
http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/RRC_140/140_EIPpresent.asp