Residency lecture attendance policy

[PMR2008]

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Is there an official lecture attendance policy put forth by the ACGME and/or RRC. I have heard that it is 80% but than again most residency programs follow a 100% attendance policy.

 

[gutonc]

Is there an official lecture attendance policy put forth by the ACGME and/or RRC. I have heard that it is 80% but than again most residency programs follow a 100% attendance policy.

Yes there is. I don't remember the exact # offhand but it's in the 80-90% range. There is no practical way to enforce a 100% attendance policy but yes, programs strongly encourage attendance. In programs with a "didactic day" attendance is definitely strongly policed but when you have 2 lectures/conferences a day (not uncommon in IM), this is completely impractical.

 

[Ludicolo]

Yes there is.

I’m not so sure.

http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/navP...rogram_CurriculumComponents_Documentation.pdf

http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/irc/DIO_Conference_Attendance.pdf

AFAIK is no official ACGME attendance policy. There is a general requirement of documentation and maintenance of an attendance record. However, individual RRCs (and certainly individual programs) may vary, as noted in the above documents.

Agree that any policy requiring 100% compliance, while ambitious, is impractical.

 

[Smurfette]

It's program specific.

My program required a 75% attendance rate (we were exempted from the 75% rule when on trauma or ICU call, or on a certain community hospital rotation). It was 50% when I was a junior resident, and then they upped it.

 

[Buzz Me]

Definitely program-dependent, and not mandated by the RRC (how could it be?).

 

[dpmd]

Actually, the RRC could have a requirement for lecture attendance. How many lectures the program decides to have might be program dependent, but they could easily set a number they expect you to achieve. When we discussed what changes were going to be made for the new work hours, there was talk from each of the program directors that a X% lecture attendance was a requirement. I presume from the RRC, but I didn't look it up. How they would prevent people from just signing each other in is a different story.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

It used to be mandated by the IM RRC. I think they required 70%. Now there is just a vague rule:

The core curriculum must include a didactic program that is based upon the core knowledge content of internal medicine.

The didactic program may include lectures, web-based content, pod casts, etc. The program must afford each resident an opportunity to review all of the core curriculum topics.

Residents must have the opportunity to participate in morning report, grand rounds, journal club, and morbidity and mortality (or quality improvement) conferences, all of which must involve faculty.

The program must provide opportunities for residents to interact with other residents and faculty in educational sessions at a frequency sufficient for peer-peer and peer-faculty interaction.