Introduction

The following policies and guidelines have been developed to ensure and enhance the quality of graduate medical education at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSU/CHM). These policies and guidelines are intended to provide an overall framework for the graduate medical education programs sponsored by MSU/CHM. The policies have been developed with the intention of meeting accreditation requirements, but more importantly to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of graduate medical education for the participants, the administrators of the programs, the participating institutions, and the patients who are served by the programs.

No policy or guideline can be developed to cover every situation. The unique nature of the programs in Graduate Medical Education require each Program to consider carefully the requirements of the discipline and specialty in order to ensure a clinically and academically sound course of study. Therefore, it is recognized that these policies provide a general, broad set of criteria for graduate medical education programs sponsored by MSU/CHM.

Programs with more stringent requirements such as accreditation program requirements, utilization of unique evaluation forms for the advancement of residents, designation of teaching and non-teaching members of the department, etc. must provide the resident with these standards and/or policies in writing. It is recommended that all residents receive a copy of the ACGME Program Requirements and the Institutional Requirements for their particular discipline/program.

I. Statement of Institutional Commitment to Graduate Medical Education and Mission Statements

The ACGME requires a written statement of institutional commitment to GME that is supported by the governing authority, the administration, and the teaching staff. See CHM Statement of Institutional Commitment. (http://gme.chm.msu.edu/GME/instcom.htm)

A. College Mission

The mission of the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University is to educate and develop exemplary physicians, create, and disseminate

new knowledge, and provide service to the people of the State through programs of education, research, and outreach that are:

1. Integrated with and responsive to communities and their systems of health care,

2. Focused on meeting the health care needs of patients, families, and communities,

3. Considerate of the dignity, diversity, needs, and values of individual patients; and

4. Responsive to the unmet needs of medically under-served populations.

Within the general mission of the College of Human Medicine, the College has programs of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.

B. Graduate Medical Education Mission

The mission of the College of Human Medicine in graduate medical education is to provide Institutional Sponsorship to high quality programs of graduate medical education in those primary and specialty care disciplines relevant to the College’s mission. Such Graduate Medical Education Programs will be accomplished in concert with the teaching hospitals and health systems affiliated with the College.

1. To accomplish this mission, the College will sponsor graduate medical education programs that meet the health care needs of the people of the State of Michigan.

2. The College will ensure that all residency programs for which MSU/CHM is the Sponsoring Institution are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

3. The College shall have a Graduate Medical Education Committee that will oversee the conduct and management of all programs for which MSU/CHM is the Sponsoring Institution

4. The Graduate Medical Education programs of the College are conducted under the aegis of its Dean and as delegated to the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

C. Designated Institutional Official (DIO)

The Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education will be the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) with the authority and responsibility for the oversight and administration and administration of the graduate medical education programs sponsored by MSU. The Director of Medical Education will be the Institutional Official delegated such oversight responsibility in the absence of, or as delegated by the Associate Dean.