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Congratulations, Connie! We also have a non-ACGME Adult Reconstruction Fellowship.

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Lorena,

TAGME certification for 2019 is now open through June 15 for applications. See below for the timeline –

Application submission – May 1 through June 15
Application review and notification: Rolling through June 30
Assessment scheduling – Upon application approval
Session 1 Assessment Completion – August 1 through Sept 15
Session 1 Retakes – September 16 through October 15
Session 2 Assessment Completion – October 16 through Nov 30
Session 2 Retakes – December 1 through December 31

If you don’t apply between now and June 15, you will have to wait until 2020 to take the assessment.

Hope this helps,

Chris Tutsch, C-TAGME
Immediate Past President, TAGME

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First time for me as well and reviewing the feedback. Thanks All.

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I just had a site visit in Feb 2019. The Site Visitor will send a letter requesting all the information they want you to produce in that letter. I asked the Site Visitor if she wanted a binder or if I could save the documents electronically. She agreed to the electronic files as long as they were readily available and I could print out whatever she wanted. I labeled all the folders: PLAs, Block Diagram, CCC and PEC, Distance Rotations, Education Schedules, Evaluations, Faculty, Goals and Objectives, Residency Handbook, Program Director Info. It worked out great and I could find whatever she wanted readily. We did end up printing some paperwork for her, but only a few items. Now, I did make this arrangement prior to the site visit so make sure it is OK with them, before all else.

Best of Luck,
~Laurel

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I also have a new PD starting July 1 and would also appreciate the same info. I thought the massive binders were just needed when we used the PIF for the site visits. Do people still put together binders for the 10 year site visits?

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Here is how we schedule at York Hospital. We have 3 residents per year and each resident (PGY 2-5) gets a junior and senior rotation in each specialty except for just 1 block in Oncology. The blocks are 3 months long.

Cindy, we do not have med student schedules coincide with our resident schedules.

PS Don’t forget to update your ARCOS Online profile with full name, photo, email address, Program Name, etc., so more people can connect with you!
~Laurel

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To piggyback off of this question, do you all have your blocks coincide with your affiliated medical schools blocks?

Asking as our DIO is encouraging our med school and ours to be the same exact block dates and its not working out for us.

I have attached my schedule. for the first year we do 12 month blocks and for the 2-5 years we do 4 month blocks.

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Here is UNMs schedule. 10 week blocks.

Joni

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Hi Bridget,

Here is our required checklist from our GME Office.

Kim

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We use NI quite a bit. I use it for Duty hours; personal information; test scores, etc.
I also use it for conference attendance; evaluations for conference and for Faculty evaluating residents.

I run reports from NI for our CCC meetings. I do enter Milestones in NI.

We do onboarding through NI.

It is a great program for storing so much information for the residents career.

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Mine do through an end of year evaluation sent out by the GME office.

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Hello All,

Not necessarily, there are two questions on the Annual program Evaluation about the program coordinator on professionalism.

Not an evaluation on program coordinator.

MRMalvoisin

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Hi Khawla,

Mine do not but I’m interested in seeing what other programs have to say as well.

Have a great day!

Kim

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Hi Rebecca,
I tried using Conferences years ago and it was not reliable. I have not had the time to look at it since about 2012, so I hope all the bugs have been worked out.
We do not use procedure logger because the residents log in ACGME.
Evaluations, we use these a lot for residency evaluations, especially nice for those that must be anonymous, but not for Milestones. I like that I can see the delinquent evals and send a reminder via email very easily. We are heavy OrthoBullets users and they are great for populating the milestones and our CCC meetings are much less stressful!
I want to start using Portfolio but need some time to figure it out.

Let me know if you have specific questions!
~Laurel llewis8@wellspan.org
I also use Med Scheduler (with NI)to populate and update schedules. It makes the process a breeze.
I like the information options in Personal Records so I put a lot of info in there.
Our residents also use the Duty Hour feature.

I would have to say my favorite features is the Evaluation section. But I agree there is much more to learn about the software and I’ve been using it for about 9 years.

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Hi!

Thursday
Social Hour 6-8pm

Friday
6:45am Sports Med Lecture or Grand Rounds (depending on date and specialty. We are west coast so the early call time doesn’t bother most people) Breakfast provided
8:00am Program Presentation from faculty
9:00am Interviews begin – snacks provided
– fellows stay with applicants, answer questions and give tours
– applicants receive 3 15-minute interviews with 2 faculty per room
11:00ish Lunch to-go delivered (for those who need to catch a flight)
Faculty break built into schedule
2:00pm End
Faculty to room for rank discussion

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