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News Release
ACGME adopts new mission, vision, and values statement
ACGME Board also approves revised bylaws, program requirements
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Contact: Julie A. Jacob
(312) 755-7133
juliej@acgme.org |
CHICAGO, Oct. 7, 2005 – Exemplary accreditation is now officially the guiding vision of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Although exemplary accreditation has always been the ACGME’s goal, the ACGME Board of Directors formalized it at the ACGME fall meeting, held Sept. 11-13 in Rosemont, Ill., when the Board adopted a new mission, vision, and values statement.
- The ACGME’s mission is to improve health care through assessing and advancing the quality of resident education through accreditation.
- Its vision is exemplary accreditation.
- Its values are accountability, excellence, and professionalism.
“Complex organizations are held together by clear purposes and principles of operations, and the ACGME’s new mission, vision, and values statement focuses the purposes of our organization,” said David C. Leach, MD, executive director of the ACGME.
“The ACGME’s values will be manifest through our behavior,” he added. “The only things real in any organization are the people and the relationships they have with one another. The ACGME attracts more than 300 volunteer physicians – some of the best physicians in the United States – to serve on its review committees, and we have 100 employees who are committed to the noble purpose of improving health care through our work.”
The Board also approved revisions to the ACGME bylaws, including revisions reflecting the IRC’s new function of accrediting institutions that sponsor residency programs.
In other actions, the Board approved major program revisions for family medicine, geriatrics, nuclear medicine, ophthalmology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation; the Board also approved minor program revisions for general surgery and neuroradiology.
The Board elected two new directors. The new directors are Timothy Flynn, MD, a professor of surgery and associate director of graduate medical education at the University of Florida College of Medicine, who was nominated by the American Board of Medical Specialties; and Karen Holbrook, PhD, president of Ohio State University, nominated by the ACGME Executive Committee, who will serve as a public director. The new directors replace outgoing Board directors Mark A. Kelley, MD, and Duncan McDonald.
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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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