USF – College of Medicine

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION POLICY & PROCEDURE

Title: Core Curriculum / Educational Requirements		No.: GME-212
Effective Date: 1/1/99	Revision Date:	Distribution: All
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Policy Statement

As part of the ACGME Institutional Requirements, institutions that sponsor graduate medical education must assure the development of personal programs of education. These requirements stipulate that residents must have adequate knowledge and understanding of core concepts in several key areas.

The USF College of Medicine has developed a “core curriculum” to guide the Institution, the Program, and the Resident in establishing educational guidelines. Key components of the core curriculum and the resident educational process include:

- Quality Measurement & Improvement

- Communication Skills

- Medical/Legal Issues

- Managed Care

- Ethics

- Research Design and Statistics

- Socioeconomic

- Critical Review of the Literature

- Cost Containment Issues

Procedure

Responsible Party Action

Office of GME Advises Program Directors of recommendations for and/or changes to core curriculum in keeping with the ACGME guidelines for graduate medical education.

Program Directors Establishes a program of educational components to include the core curriculum requirements.

Residents Meets the criteria established by each program and subspecialty program in the requirements for a core curriculum.

Title: Core Curriculum / Educational Requirements	No.: GME-212
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APPROVED:

Associate Dean – Clinical Affairs/GME

Dean, College of Medicine

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