Purpose/Responsibilities

• To participate actively in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating all significant activities of the residency program.
• To review annually the program using multiple sources of evaluation including evaluations by faculty and residents, board score results, and success of resident recruitment.
• To assure that areas of non-compliance with ACGME standards are corrected.
• To render a full, written, annual program evaluation (APE).

Membership

The program director must appoint the PEC members.  The committee must be composed of at least 2 members of the residency faculty and must include representation from the residents.

Process

The PEC will meet semi-annually and will review:

• Current program, common and institutional ACGME requirements
• Follow up on previous citations
• Goals and objectives of curriculum
• Evaluation system
• Didactic curriculum requirements
• Effectiveness of clinical curriculum
• Volume and variety of patients and procedures
• Program Letters of Agreement
• In house program evaluations by faculty and residents
• ACGME faculty and resident surveys
• Resident supervision policy
• Recruiting results
• Duty hour monitoring results
• Research and scholarly activities of faculty and residents
• Board scores, in training exam scores, graduate surveys
• Clinical outcomes/QI projects 

If deficiencies are found, a written plan will be prepared to document initiatives to improve.

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Program Evaluation Committee Members