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ASP Receives $4.5 Million Grant to Support Second Phase of T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program
The Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) is pleased to announce that it received a renewal grant
of $4.5 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA), Inc., to support 45 additional T. Franklin Williams Scholars.
Practice-Based Learning through Resident Quality Improvement Projects
Like all internal medicine residency programs, the program at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU) faces the challenge of incorporating the six competencies outlined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education into its teaching
program.
Practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice are key concepts not well taught in the traditional internal medicine residency curriculum.
ACGME, IHI Hold Conference on Patient Care, Practice-Based Learning
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) continued their jointly sponsored conferences on “Training Residents to Use Quality Improvement Principles in Their Practice” with a meeting on patient care and practice-based learning and improvement issues in December 2005.
Medicine-Pediatrics Accreditation: A New (and Improved) Way Forward
The accreditation process for combined residency training programs has been fraught with complexities and pitfalls. How do you bring two residency review committees (RRCs) and their related certifying boards to the table and agree on an achievable solution that maximizes training in both disciplines, yet has the oversight and transparency required to ensure the highest quality of training? With the initial posting of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME’s) “Addendum to the Program Requirements for Residency Education in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics”, ACGME has taken the first major step in accomplishing this very task for the largest combined program, internal
medicine-pediatrics residencies.
MKSAP for Students 3 Now Available
The Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) launched the third iteration of the highly popular Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) for Students on March 1, 2006.
Stem Cell Research Legislation
The Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) and the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) have both taken positions supporting embryonic stem cell research, approving the recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences report, Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine, that “permits medical research using nuclear transplantation to produce stem cells, calls for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, and states that additional embryonic stem cell lines will be needed for research to reach its full potential” (1).
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