Week of September 21, 2007
The September 2007 issue of Academic Medicine features several articles of interest to the academic medicine community.
Articles of note include:
The History, Purpose, and Future of Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research
Physician Assistant Education in the United States
The Changing Paradigm of Contemporary U.S. Allopathic Medical School Graduates' Career Paths: Analysis of the 1997-2004 National AAMC Graduation Questionnaire Database
In addition, the New England Journal of Medicine published Sustaining the Engine of U.S. Biomedical Discovery, a report on medical school investments in research faculty and infrastructure.
A former medical resident suing a New York hospital for allegedly terminating him in bad faith in breach of the residency contract is entitled to discover the hospital's documents relating to the accreditation of its residency program, a state supreme court ruled Feb. 5 (Schaeffer v. Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, N.Y. Sup. Ct., No. 32189/03, 2/5/07).
The New York Supreme Court, Kings County, also denied the hospital's request for a protective order preventing the deposition of the supervisor of the urology program regarding the program's probationary status.
The New York statutes that prevent disclosure of quality assurance review proceedings related to patient care (N.Y. Pub. Health Law §2805-m and N.Y. Educ. Law §6527(3)) do not extend to the accreditation of a hospital residency program, the New York Supreme Court, Kings County, ruled.
In addition, the guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which oversees the accreditation of post-MD medical training programs within the United States, "suggest that disclosure to a resident is appropriate," the court said. Nothing in the ACGME's guidelines suggest that hospitals may not disclose documents relating to its own accreditation application, the court added.