Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors Inaugural Meeting

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Council of Orthopaedic Residency
DirectorsInaugural Meeting

• Friday June 12th, 2009

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ABOS

• Residency Program Directors Update
• For CORD, 2009

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Issues for Accreditation

• R1 Requirements
• Passing Rate for Part I

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R1 Requirements

• Should be under the direction of the Orthopaedic
  Residency Director
• 6 Months of Core Surgery-
• 2 months General Surgery
• 4 months Systemic Trauma, Vascular, Burns, SICU
• 3 Months Non orthopaedic elective
• ED, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Peds Surgery, PMR,
  Rheumatology, MICU, CICU, MSK Radiology,
  Anesthesiology/ Pain
• Months are 4 weeks or calendar month!

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Problem

• Transfers from non-orthipaedic R1 programs

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Solution

• Call ABOS and write a plan outlining the
  corrections for the R1 as soon as possible.
  Provide written corroboration of what rotations
  were done. Make the changes early and dont
  argue with interpretations. Notify ACGME as well
  about the changes.

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Example- R1 at Bid State U transfers to Big Blue
U Residency

• Big U Rotations
• 3 months General Surgery
• 2 months Trauma Surgery
• 1 month Plastic/Hand Surgery
• 1 month ED
• 2 months Cardiothoracic and ICU
• 1 month Vascular Surgery
• 1 month Neurosurgery
• 1 month Ortho

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Good to Go?

• No- This R1 did not perform SICU at Big State U,
  this needs to be addressed in a plan by the Big
  Blue Program Director.

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Part I Passing Rate

• 75 over a 5 year time
• Not reviewed annually but at each RRC review

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Feedback to Program Director

• Each Program Director gets a summary of how their
  residents performed in the 18 Content Domains.
  This is to help with the teaching curriculum.

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Application for Part I

• This is the residents responsibility, have each
  R5 createan account online at abos.org October
  1.

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Part I

• Deadline for online application December 15, late
  deadline January 8. There are no exceptions to
  the deadline!

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Part I Application

• Program Directors receive 2 written notices- one
  with the summary of results from prior year part
  I and second early November, reminding them to
  have R5 residents make their applications.

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Each Year 9 R5 Residents Fail to make the
Application Deadline. And, another 8 Do Not Show
Up for the Exam!
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Success Rate

• 1st Time US Residents 92 passing rate, those
  who miss the deadline or who skip the exam 90
  passing on the first examination.

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Summary

• Concerns About R1 Requirements- Call ABOS
• Speak with me
• Write a letter to start a paper trail
• Propose a correction plan
• Passing Rate for part I- should be gt 75
• Have Your residents go online to create an ID and
  password, make the deadline for the application a
  goal of your instructions.

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The End