[Jennifer Duane]

Thank you Laurel!

[Jennifer Duane]

Hi Kim! I’ve attached a template of the eval we’ve been using. We distribute it and collect responses via SurveyMonkey, so the formatting isn’t great in Word. We had a site visit in Jan 2023 and the visitor had no issue with it.

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[Jennifer Duane]

Channon that policy looks very helpful! Great idea and thanks for sharing.

I wanted to add one additional thing we learned when we had 2 residents who were pregnant during our anatomy course this year – they should avoid exposure to formaldehyde.  So they should be excused from participating in cadaver labs.

[Jennifer Duane]

Channon that policy looks very helpful! Great idea and thanks for sharing.

I wanted to add one additional thing we learned when we had 2 residents who were pregnant during our anatomy course this year – they should avoid exposure to formaldehyde.  So they should be excused from participating in cadaver labs.

[Jennifer Duane]

Hannah – I was looking at The Harlequin which is right across the street from the Marriott Marquis, so it seems to be the most convenient option outside the hotels. I ended up not booking it only because I don’t think we’ll end up having a reception this year. So you could look into that. they also own some other bars in the area but they were further from the hotel and I usually try to book in or very close to the main hotel for the meeting.

I did not look into options in the Union Square area.

[Jennifer Duane]

Hi Amanda

I agree with what others said about not needing to include every single surgeon in your faculty roster. But I would caution against doing a significant “housecleaning,” especially if you’re in initial accreditation phase. We received an AFI because the RRC picked up that we removed a lot of faculty members from our ADS roster over the course of 2 years. Even though we actually added more new faculty than we removed, it turns out that part of the data they look at focuses on the # of faculty that left so it appeared we had an attrition issue. The reality was that, as an old and large program, we had a lot of faculty still on our roster whose involvement with residents had gradually decreased over time, and as new people were added, it was time to take a more critical look at how many people really needed to stay on. So if you really think some in your roster really no longer meet the definition of faculty based on their level of engagement with the residents, I’d be careful about removing just a couple per year.

I don’t know how the RRC looks at scholarly activity, so I can’t really speak to that piece of it. I just know our GME advises everyone should have something listed, rather than “no activity.”

For context, I have 60 residents, 4 academic medical centers and 1 community hospital site, and the total faculty roster is 90-something.

Jen

[Jennifer Duane]

Hi Amanda

I agree with what others said about not needing to include every single surgeon in your faculty roster. But I would caution against doing a significant “housecleaning,” especially if you’re in initial accreditation phase. We received an AFI because the RRC picked up that we removed a lot of faculty members from our ADS roster over the course of 2 years. Even though we actually added more new faculty than we removed, it turns out that part of the data they look at focuses on the # of faculty that left so it appeared we had an attrition issue. The reality was that, as an old and large program, we had a lot of faculty still on our roster whose involvement with residents had gradually decreased over time, and as new people were added, it was time to take a more critical look at how many people really needed to stay on. So if you really think some in your roster really no longer meet the definition of faculty based on their level of engagement with the residents, I’d be careful about removing just a couple per year.

I don’t know how the RRC looks at scholarly activity, so I can’t really speak to that piece of it. I just know our GME advises everyone should have something listed, rather than “no activity.”

For context, I have 60 residents, 4 academic medical centers and 1 community hospital site, and the total faculty roster is 90-something.

Jen

[Jennifer Duane]

Artina – We’ve been incorporating a 30 min OITE review into our Wednesday core curriculum every other week. Last year it was just July – October, but I think we’re going to do it throughout the academic year now. The residents lead the review sessions live. They’ve also been doing some 1 hour evening sessions online. Since the start of COVID we were recording just about everything, so we still have a library residents could refer back to, though we stopped recording everything this year.

One of our alums published an OITE review book so that’s the reference we’ve been using in recent years.

They also have access to ResStudy and OrthoBullets.

[Jennifer Duane]

HI Sara

We are “that program” that gives the PGY-5s 2 weeks off at the end of June to attend the Maine Course and study.

Jen – Harvard

[Jennifer Duane]

The Harvard Combined Residency program is doing virtual interviews this year.

I’m not sure about our affiliated fellowship programs at Mass. General Hospital, Brigham & Women’s, Beth Israel Deaconess and Boston Children’s.

Jen

[Jennifer Duane]

Thank you for sharing this Viveka!  ARCOS – is anyone else offering scholarships like this? WE are considering doing it for our visiting students, but since our medical school selects the students and it’s handled completely outside of the residency program, I’m not sure how we’re going to set this up. Looking for some brains to pick!

Jen

[Jennifer Duane]

HI Connie!

We’re having ours at the Chicago Hilton. Because we’re with AAOS they’ve been surprisingly flexible about food/bev min.

I had also looked into Chicago Firehouse which looked really nice and seems convenient. A friend also recommended Chicago Athletic Association (which is actually a Hyatt hotel). No idea what it will be like to find a place with short notice though. Good luck! We’ll miss you

[Jennifer Duane]

HI Connie!

We’re having ours at the Chicago Hilton. Because we’re with AAOS they’ve been surprisingly flexible about food/bev min.

I had also looked into Chicago Firehouse which looked really nice and seems convenient. A friend also recommended Chicago Athletic Association (which is actually a Hyatt hotel). No idea what it will be like to find a place with short notice though. Good luck! We’ll miss you

[Jennifer Duane]

We’ve been home since March 2020, going into the hospital as needed. I work for a hospital, not university. The hospital system recently announced they will encourage more remote/hybrid schedules as appropriate for each role. Departments and managers will be working on the details of what that will look like over the summer with the plan for all schedules to start after Labor Day.

[Jennifer Duane]

We are still planning to do a pre-interview social. While we do plan to encourage residents to participate in “waiting rooms” on the interview day, our interview day schedule is so tightly packed that we don’t think we’d be able to fit in a session for meaningful presentation about the program and opportunity for dialogue with residents.

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