Procedural requirements via AACGME?

[serimeri]

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Hi,
I was interviewing at a place last year in November and they indicated to me that the ACGME does not require procedures of interns or completion of residency? I thought this was odd and I just came back to it in my notes for the program. perhaps i misunderstood. i thought you have to complete central lines, intubations etc. in order to get "signed off" so that you can be credentialed at hospitals later on. i may decide to to primary care but would like to do hospitalist job too (unsure at this point). i tried searching that acgme website and i couldn't find anything too firm on this either.

regardless, i am not confident abuot procedures as a MS4, but i really want to as a resident (with supervision and us guidance as needed of course).
thanks for clarifying this for me!

 

[Raryn]

The ACGME requires that the program keep track of how many procedures you do. They also require the programs to certify that you are competent to perform various procedures (pap smears, lines, whatever) before you can graduate. Everything else is left up to the individual programs. There are no specific numerical requirements.

Any program could choose to say you have to do 5 cvcs before they feel you are competent. Or 10. Or 20. Or 1. Or some unspecified number closely observed by faculty that certify you are competent.

On the other hand, hospitals that credential you in the future may require specific numbers that may be different (lower OR higher) than what your program required. Hence it would behoove you (no matter where you are) to log every single thing you do. Even if it is "extra" for your program.