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Becky,
Thank you for your response, pardon my ignorance. Where would I be able to find the resources they recommend?
Thank you
Lorena

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Courtney,
Also, check into using OrthoBullets as a way to supplement your evaluations in NI and to populate the Milestones. The milestones are populated through resident/faculty interaction with the software in that residents study/take tests to populate the Medical Knowledge section and their skills are assessed (using an phone app) by the faculty during OR experiences. It is called OrthoBullets PASS and it has really shortened our CCC Meetings while making them more productive. We can go through every resident’s milestones and finalize them quickly which allows us more time to discuss resident progress individually. We call the owner, Derek Moore, MD directly with anything we do not understand and he was one of our guest speakers at graduation this year. So we feel customer service from them is a huge asset. And No, I don’t get any kickback for my endorsement…it’s just been a great product for us! 🙂

Hope this helps!
~Laurel

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Hi Lorena! I’d recommend to read up on all of the resources they recommend. I took it a couple years ago when it went back to institution/gme-based questions, and I’m not sure if it’s still “open book” but I printed everything and sorted it in a 3-ring binder, then went through pretty much every section and added sticky-tabs with “duty hours” “fatigue” “CLER” etc to make topics easier to find. The exam seems to be more to test you on how well you know your resources. Good luck to you and happy to help answer any more questions you may have!!

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Hi Courtney:
At the University of Washington we use MedHub and for the app based evaluation program we use eMTRCS which can link into MedHub for the milestones.
Angela

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I’m on LinkedIn – Eliamar Saenz

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I am on there!

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Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-hoebeke-c-tagme-0b84b649/

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Hi! Is the PD change for a residency or fellowship? I don’t have experience with residency changes but when we changed our fellowship PD we needed to update the following:

– ACGME ADS
– SF Match
– Program Website
– All contracts where the PD was listed
– All fellow onboarding paperwork where the PD was listed
– Any other AAMC or specialty society organizations and websites
– Any new grants but did not need to update old awards

The contracts can be a long one to get through. Use control + f to search documents for the old PD’s name. You can also save the old document as a new one, then “Replace All” of the old PD’s info with the new one.

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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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