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. 2012 Dec;4(4):500-4.
doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-11-00313.1.

A Citation Tracking System to Facilitate Sponsoring Institution Oversight of ACGME-Accredited Programs

Timothy R Long, John D Poe, Richard S Zimmerman, Steven H Rose

A Citation Tracking System to Facilitate Sponsoring Institution Oversight of ACGME-Accredited Programs

Timothy R Long et al. J Grad Med Educ. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires the graduate medical education committee and the designated institutional official to ensure that citations for noncompliance with the accreditation standards and institutional trends in citations are reviewed and corrected.

Objective: To describe a citation tracking system (CTS) that uses Microsoft Office Access to efficiently catalogue, monitor, and document resolution of citations.

Innovation: The CTS was implemented in a sponsoring institution with oversight of 133 ACGME-accredited programs. The designated institutional official and the graduate medical education committee review all program letters of notification and enter citations into the CTS. A program-correction plan is required for each citation and is entered into the database. Open citations and action plans are reviewed by the graduate medical education committee and the designated institutional official on a quarterly basis, with decisions ranging from "closing" the citation to approving the action plan in process to requiring a new or modified action plan. Citation categories and subcategories are accessed on the ACGME website and entered into the CTS to identify trends.

Results: All 236 citations received since the 2006 Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education institutional site visit were entered into the CTS. On November 22, 2011, 26 of 236 citations (11%) were in active status with ongoing action plans, and 210 (89%) citations had been resolved and were closed.

Conclusions: The CTS uses commercially available software to ensure citations are monitored and addressed and to simplify analysis of citation trends. The approach requires minimal staff time for data input and updates and can be performed without institutional information technology assistance.

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MSGME Program Administrative Oversight
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Total ACGME Citations by Category (n = 236)
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Open ACGME Citations by Category (n = 26)
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