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Contact your department library liaison to schedule a class to assist your program with ACGME guidelines on evidence-based medicine.
Most residency programs have ACGME requirements that focus on the use of current evidence through effective searching and journal article analysis. Below are the relevant sections of the ACGME Common Program Requirements which the Library can help departments meet through Library sessions.
IV. Educational Program
IV.A. The curriculum must contain the following educational components: (Core)
IV.A.4.a) Residents must be provided with protected time to participate in core didactic activities. (Core)
Background and Intent: It is intended that residents will participate in structured didactic activities. It is recognized that there may be circumstances in which this is not possible. Programs should define core didactic activities for which time is protected and the circumstances in which residents may be excused from these didactic activities. Didactic activities may include, but are not limited to, lectures, conferences, courses, labs, asynchronous learning, simulations, drills, case discussions, grand rounds, didactic teaching, and education in critical appraisal of medical evidence.
IV.A.6. advancement in the residents’ knowledge of the basic principles of scientific inquiry, including how research is designed, conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care. (Core)
IV.B. ACGME Competencies
IV.B.1.d) Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Residents must demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate their care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and lifelong learning. (Core)
Background and Intent: Practice-based learning and improvement is one of the defining characteristics of being a physician. It is the ability to investigate and evaluate the care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and lifelong learning.
The intention of this Competency is to help a physician develop the habits of mind required to continuously pursue quality improvement, well past the completion of residency.
IV.B.1.d).(1) Residents must demonstrate competence in:
IV.B.1. The program must integrate the following ACGME Competencies into the curriculum: (Core)
IV.B.1.d).(1).(f) locating, appraising, and assimilating evidence from scientific studies related to their patients’ health problems; and, (Core)
IV.B.1.d).(1).(g) using information technology to optimize learning. (Core)
IV.D. Scholarship
IV.D.1. Program Responsibilities
IV.D.1.c) The program must advance residents’ knowledge and practice of the scholarly approach to evidence-based patient care. (Core)
Background and Intent: The scholarly approach can be defined as a synthesis of teaching, learning, and research with the aim of encouraging curiosity and critical thinking based on an understanding of physiology, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, treatments, treatment alternatives, efficiency of care, and patient safety. While some faculty members are responsible for fulfilling the traditional elements of scholarship through research, integration, and teaching, all faculty members are responsible for advancing residents’ scholarly approach to patient care.
Elements of a scholarly approach to patient care include:
Asking meaningful questions to stimulate residents to utilize learning resources to create a differential diagnosis, a diagnostic algorithm, and treatment plan
Challenging the evidence that the residents use to reach their medical decisions so that they understand the benefits and limits of the medical literature
When appropriate, dissemination of scholarly learning in a peer-reviewed manner (publication or presentation)
Improving resident learning by encouraging them to teach using a scholarly approach
The scholarly approach to patient care begins with curiosity, is grounded in the principles of evidence-based medicine, expands the knowledge base through dissemination, and develops the habits of lifelong learning by encouraging residents to be scholarly teachers.
IV.D.2. Faculty Scholarly Activity
IV.D.2.a) Among their scholarly activity, programs must demonstrate accomplishments in at least three of the following domains: (Core)
ACGME-approved focused revision Common Program Requirements (Residency): February 3, 2020; effective July 1, 2020
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