Welcome to the Graduate Medical Education Handbook

The purpose of Graduate Medical Education (GME) within the UAMS College of Medicine is to provide an organized educational program with guidance and supervision of the resident (includes interns, residents, and fellows), facilitating the resident's professional and personal development while ensuring safe and appropriate care for patients. 

The College of Medicine  (COM) sponsors residency and fellowship programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in which physicians in training can develop personal, clinical and professional competence under the guidance and careful supervision of the faculty and staff. The programs ensure safe, appropriate and humane care of patients and the progression of resident physician responsibilities consistent with each resident’s demonstrated clinical experience, knowledge and skill. Resident physicians are part of a comprehensive university and have opportunities to participate in the scholarship of the medical community. 

As the sponsoring institution for graduate medical education, the College of Medicine commits that all accredited residency programs remain in substantial compliance with the ACGME institutional requirements, the Common Program and specialty/subspecialty- specific requirements. The College provides an organized administrative system to oversee all residency and fellowship programs through the activities of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Director of Housestaff Records. The College and the participating teaching hospitals commit appropriate resources to support the residents, their educational environment, and the graduate medical education programs.

Resident Handbook: information for housestaff members - interns, residents, and fellows - in ACGME-accredited programs sponsored by the  UAMS College of Medicine.

Program Director Handbook

Resident Handbook
(interns, residents, fellows)

Table of Contents

• Graduate Medical Education Overview
  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) web site
  ACGME Institutional Requirements
  Training Program contact information
  GME staff
  

• Benefits and Terms & Conditions for Appointment (Employment)
  

  Pre employment Drug Test	Counseling/psychological support services	Ethics
  Financial Support	Employee Health/Student Preventive Health Services	Use of Records for Educational Research
  Vacations	Computer Facilities	Sexual Harassment
  Professional Leave	Program Closure or Reduction	Anti-Discrimination
  Sick/Parental Leave	Orientation/Registration
  Insurance	International Medical graduates
  ACLS	Annual Records
  Meals	Moonlighting
  Laundry	Restrictive Covenants
  Accommodations	Requirements to receive benefits, stipend

• Graduate Medical Education Organization
  Statement of Commitment
  Organization Chart
  GME Committee purpose, subcommittees
  GME Committee Members

• Graduate Medical Education Committee Policies
  Definitions
  Policies
  ACGME Policy on Moonlighting
  ACGME Standards on Resident Duty Hours

• Needlestick Policy

• Resident Organization/Resident Council

• Communication & Liaison
  Systems for Communication
  Method to Communicate and Resolve Issues of Concern
  UAMS E-Mail Access & Usage Policy
  Resident Computer Facilities

• Internal Review
   

• General Competencies
  Ethics,  socioeconomic, medical/legal, risk management, cost containment,  communication skills,  biostatistics, quality performance/performance improvement, physicians impairment, medical practice, resident teaching skills

Web-based courses: Requirements for Completion and Access Instruction (click here)

• Professionalism
  Code of Professional Conduct
  Policy on Sexual Harassment

  Policy on Anti-Discrimination
  Patient Bill of Rights
  FGP Faculty Physicians' Responsibilities Statement, On-Call & Messaging Standards
  Patient Relations
  Patient Communication

• Resources 
  Computer and Library Resources
  Links to Helpful Websites
  Debt and Money Management
  Future Employment
  United States Customs and Culture
  
  Help Groups
  Women's Faculty Development Caucus
  Alumni Association
  Student Employee Health Services
  UAMS Medical Staff Health Committee (Physician Health Committee)
  Housestaff Spouses' Auxiliary

• Arkansas Employee Assistance Program & Housestaff Mental Health Service
   

• Documentation & Legal Issues
  Medicare Documentation
  Medical Record Keeping/Documentation,
  Death Documentation, Reporting, Certification, and the Autopsy
  Health Information Management (Medical Records)
  Prescription writing/pharmacy issues/medication errors
  Risk Management and Prevention- communication, confidentiality, documentation, informed consent, malpractice insurance
  Arkansas State Medical Board Newsletter excerpt release of patients' records
  Quality/Performance Improvement Program
  Patient Safety Program
  UAMS Dictation Instructions

• UAMS Campus Security

• Office of Human Resources Benefits for Housestaff
  

Send mail to norwoodannd@uams.edu with questions or comments about this web site.

Last modified: January 25, 2008