June 29, 2017

Hello,
Continuing to spotlight our McGovern Medical School programs, we recently visited with Dr. Margaret Uthman, associate dean for educational programs, to learn more about our impressive graduate medical education (GME) programs. Located in the largest medical center in the world and the fourth-largest, and most diverse city in the United States, we are attractive to a wide array of trainees, from Texas and beyond, and offer an incredible variety of specialty and subspecialty training programs, serving a broad patient population both in and around the Texas Medical Center.
McGovern Medical School sponsors 145 different GME programs – 74 of which are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Of the programs, 78 are specialty residencies and 67 are subspecialty fellowships. Currently, we have 1,086 trainees enrolled in and learning through these programs – 655 residents and 431 fellows. A big McGovern Texas welcome to the ~450 incoming residents and fellows who are just beginning their work in these highly competitive programs.
GME办公室是活动的枢纽，与GME委员会，计划主管和教职员工合作，为所有居民和研究员提供最高质量的教育经验和适当的工作环境。为了同时提高学员的评估和反馈，我们遵守ACGME的合规性规定，我们已经建立了系统，以监视每个受训者在会议时的进度对于所有培训计划 - 媒体知识，患者护理，专业精神，人际交往，基于实践的学习和基于系统的实践。每6个月，每位受训者都会与计划主任或其他高级教师进行面对面的会议，以审查会议里程碑方面的进展。
The GME Office also works with our affiliated hospitals regarding the allocation of funded positions for residents and fellows and documents the effort expended by residents and fellows (for billing purposes and for reimbursement to affiliated hospitals by government agencies). The availability and funding of residency positions is an issue of critical importance throughout the country. For Texas in particular, as medical student positions have grown, we must ensure that our resident and fellowship complement keeps pace to meet the growing demands for physicians.
在教职员工和居民的代表下，研究生医学教育委员会（GMEC）负责监督所有研究生医学教育计划的质量教育，并确保遵守持续认证的授权。GMEC通过：

• Establishing policies that apply to all graduate medical education programs.
• Maintaining appropriate oversight of, and liaison with, program directors, assuring that program directors establish and maintain proper oversight of, and liaison with, appropriate personnel of other institutions.
• Regularly reviewing all ACGME letters of accreditation and developing and monitoring action plans for the correction of citations.
• Conducting internal reviews of all graduate medical education programs.
• Assuring that each residency program establishes and implements formal written criteria and processes for the selection, evaluation, promotion, and dismissal of residents.
• Assuring an educational environment in which residents may raise and resolve issues without fear of intimidation or retaliation.
• Collecting intra-institutional information and making recommendations on the appropriate funding for residency programs.
• 监测项目和建立appropriate work environment and the duty hours of residents.

Enhancing resident wellness is a current focus nationally and locally. The GME Office and our training programs have been working to support mental and physical health and well-being in an attempt to promote career satisfaction, reduce stress, and prevent burnout. The GME Office also works closely with each of our residents on such items as licensure, institutional permits, educational documentation, loan deferment, and grievance procedures. And in the past year, two new certificate programs were offered to residents and fellows: the Physician Educators Certificate Program and the Healthcare Management Certificate Program.
GME is not only for our residents and fellows. The GME Office and the GMEC provide professional development opportunities for program directors and coordinators with quarterly workshops and informational sessions at the monthly GMEC meetings. In addition they offer a Speakers Bureau — a list of individuals with expertise in a wide variety of topics who are willing to provide Grand Rounds or conference presentations to programs or departments.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of those who work directly and indirectly with our GME programs and trainees. We are grateful for your hard work in building and sustaining successful programs that serve the needs of our trainees so that they receive excellent clinical training and can go out and make a difference in their patients’ lives.
Warm regards,
Barbara