Use of graded responsibility and common entrustment considerations among United States emergency medicine residency programs.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires all residency programs to provide increasing autonomy as residents progress through training, known as graded responsibility. However, there is little guidance on how to implement graded responsibility in practice and a paucity of literature on how it is currently implemented in emergency medicine (EM). We sought to determine how emergency medicine (EM) residency programs apply graded responsibility across a variety of activities and to identify which considerations are important in affording additional responsibilities to trainees.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study of EM residency programs using a 23-question survey that was distributed by email to 162 ACGME-accredited EM program di

SUBMITTER: Lai J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7225606 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature