If any of these areas suggests a problem, the Review Committee may ask the program to provide clarifying information, a progress report, or it may schedule a site visit.Ĭontinued Accreditation: 10-Year Accreditation Site VisitsĪll Sponsoring Institutions and programs undergo a site visit following the Self-Study process that includes a description of how the Sponsoring Institution or program creates an effective learning and working environment, and how this leads to desired educational outcomes.Ī Sponsoring Institution or program on Probationary Accreditation will need to have a site visit and be reviewed prior to achieving a status of Continued Accreditation or Continued Accreditation with Warning. This includes the ACGME Resident and Faculty Survey reports Case Log data (if applicable) surveys about adequacy of patient volume and variety for other specialties information on scholarly activity for residents/fellows and faculty members resident/fellow and/or faculty member attrition and transitions in program and/or institutional leadership. Sponsoring Institutions and Programs with a status of Continued Accreditation are subject to an annual screening of accreditation data in ADS. Sponsoring Institutions and Programs with Initial AccreditationĪll Sponsoring Institutions and programs undergo a site visit at the end of the Initial Accreditation period and prior to a Review Committee’s decision to confer the status of Continued Accreditation.Ĭontinued Accreditation: Annual Data Review Site Visit Applications for Sponsoring Institutions and some subspecialty programs are reviewed without a site visit. The site visit seeks to verify and clarify the application documents in which institutional and program leadership have described the resources of the program and how it will comply with the Program Requirements. What are the different types of site visits?Ī site visit is conducted to review all specialty (core) and many subspecialty programs when an application for accreditation is submitted. The Site Visit Announcement letter will indicate the name(s) and contact information of the assigned Accreditation Field Representative(s) for the visit. Some site visits to Sponsoring Institutions and programs are conducted by a team of two or more Accreditation Field Representatives.
Biographical summaries of the Accreditation Field Representatives are available on the ACGME website.
SITE VISITS PROFESSIONAL
Who conducts accreditation and recognition site visits?Īccreditation and recognition site visits are conducted by Accreditation Field Representatives, who are professional site visitors employed by the ACGME. Accreditation Field Representatives are not the decision makers accreditation and recognition decisions are the purview of the Review and Recognition Committees. The purpose of the accreditation and recognition site visit is the collection and aggregation of relevant data, which is put into a narrative, factual Site Visit Report used by the ACGME Review and Recognition Committees to make accreditation or recognition decisions. What is the purpose of the accreditation and recognition site visit?
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