An Early Assessment of the ACGME CLER Program: A National Survey of Designated Institutional Officials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) is an innovative element of the ACGME's new accreditation system. To date, little information has been collected regarding the value of CLER.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to collect information on designated institutional officials' (DIOs') perspectives about the initial CLER visits conducted at their institutions.

Methods

The authors created and distributed a survey to DIOs about their initial CLER visits. Demographic data were compared across survey responses with Spearman's rank correlation and the Kruskal-Wallis test.

Results

The authors received responses from 63% of DIOs (186 of 297) at institutions that participated in the ini

SUBMITTER: Long TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5476383 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature