Duty hours among topics presented at joint Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine conference
CHICAGO, April 28, 2003 – What are the opportunities and challenges for medical residency programs in the United States today and in the future? How will the ACGME's new duty hour standards affect residents and residency programs?
Those are among the questions that a panel of physicians and scholars will discuss at the Sept. 25 symposium, "On Call: The History and Future of Medical Residency Programs." The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine are jointly sponsoring the free symposium, which is geared to physicians, residents, nurses, hospital administrators and anyone interested in graduate medical education.
David C. Leach, MD, the ACGME's executive director, will give a presentation on "Resident Duty Hours: Complicated or Complex?" Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, an oncology fellow at Dana Farber/Partners Cancer Care and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School, will discuss "The Residency Legacy: Working Hours and Reworking Ours." David Rothman, PhD, will discuss "Residency Training and Medicine as a Profession: Match or Mismatch?" Dr. Rothman is the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as a history professor at Columbia University.
Howard Markel, MD, PhD, and Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD, will moderate the discussion. Dr. Markel is the George E. Wantz Professor of History of Medicine and professor of both pediatrics and history at the University of Michigan, as well as director of the university's Center for the History of Medicine. Dr. Stern is the center's associate director and an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and American culture at the University of Michigan.
The symposium will be held 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the University of Chicago's Gleacher
Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive in Chicago. Admission is free, but space
is limited. To register, contact Marsha Miller, the ACGME's associate executive
director for RRC Activities, (312) 755-5041 or mmiller@acgme.org.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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