Hi Sarah,

When you log into your ACGME Accreditation Data System (ADS) and click on Overview on the right hand side you can see “Important Dates.”  Right now mine reads Annual Update Status – July 2022 thru Sept 2022 – DIO approved:  Sept 22, 2022.  Those are the required updates and the window in which you must complete them.  So I expect it will be around the same time this year.

When you say “Schedule Changes” you are referring to your Block Diagram, correct?  The Block Diagram does not reflect each resident every year.  It is your most excellent plan for one resident from PGY 1-5.  For example, all PGY 1 complete these rotations, all PGY 2 complete X, X, etc., rotations.  So, if one of my PGY2’s doesn’t get a chance to complete a Hand Rotation, then I know that PGY2 will need to complete it in PGY3 because all residents get a junior and a senior rotation in Hand.  But I don’t have to change my Block Diagram unless there is a shift that all PGY3 will complete a Hand rotation as their junior rotation.

Program Letter of Agreement (PLA) updates can be done when you request a new location that requires a PLA or any time there is a change in the PLA.

So the short answer is that you can submit these documents any time beforehand, but you must have them completed during your Annual Update Status window.

Does anyone else have any input on this??

~Laurel