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• The number of ACGME core competencies issued as part of the outcomes project to provide a framework for GME in all programs.

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• What is 6 ?

• The competency that addresses the ability to identify strengths, deficiencies and limits in one’s knowledge and expertise.

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• What is Practice-based Learning and Improvement (PBLI) ?

• The competency addressed by having residents practice role-playing the part of informing someone of bad news.

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• What is Interpersonal and Communication Skills ?

• The competency best assessed by use of multiple choice questions (MCQ’s) like on an intraining examination (ITE).

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• What is Medical Knowledge ?

• The competency addressed by adhering to confidentiality with protected patient information.

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• What is Professionalism ?

• The required VISA type for training in GME at the WVU School of Medicine.

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• What is the J-1 VISA ?

• The maximum length of time that a foreign physician may remain in the US on a J - VISA to participate in GME programs.

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• What is 7 years ?

• The time period that physicians with ‘green cards’ may remain in the US and participate in GME training programs.

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• What is Unlimited ?

• The frequency with which a foreign national physician must renew their sponsorship with the ECFMG while in GME training programs.

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• What is annually ?

• The maximum time that an individual may remain in the US to work under an H1 VISA .

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• What is 6 years ?

• The assessment tool used primarily by faculty to score or rate resident performance at the end of each ‘rotation’ that looks at all six competencies.

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• What is the Global Competency Rating Form ?

• The assessment tool used to assess Professionalism and Interpersonal Communication Skills, completed by faculty, nurses, ancillary staff, peers and self.

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• What is the 360 Degree Rating Form ?

• The assessment tool that is time consuming to administer and costly, but useful to measure specific clinical skills and abilities. It requires skill demonstration at multiple stations often with simulators or standardized patients.

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• What is the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) ?

• The assessment tool useful in evaluating mastery of practiced based improvement (PBI). It uses documentation of teaching experiences, uses of research to make a difference in they way we provide care, and self reflection.

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• What is the Portfolio ?

• The assessment tool that provides evidence about clinical decision making, follow through in management and preventive health services, when faculty examine ten patient records.

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• What is Record Review ?

• The maximum average frequency that a resident may take in house overnight call.

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• What is every third night ?

• The examination that all MD degree resident physicians are expected to have passed before entering the 3rd year of training.

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• What is the USMLE Step 3 ?

• The time limit the WV Board of Medicine has established for passing all three steps of the USMLE examination in order to be eligible for a license.

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• What is 7 years ?

• The document that identifies the faculty to assume educational and supervisory responsibilities for a resident when a resident rotates at another institution.

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• What is a letter of agreement between the program and the assigned participating institution ?

• Examples include addition or deletion of a participating institution, change in educational format, change in resident complement, that must be obtained prior to implementation.

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• What are things that must be approved by the GMEC ?

• The entity responsible for the peer review accreditation of allopathic graduate medical education programs in the US.

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• What is the ACGME ?

• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

• The entity responsible for assessing the readiness of international medical graduates to enter GME programs in the US accredited by the ACGME.

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• What is the ECFMG ?

• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates

• The entity responsible for ensuring that a hospital meets certain standards for providing patient care and safety.

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• What is the JCAHO ?

• Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

• The entity that is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving the public and state licensing agencies by administering examinations for medical knowledge for osteopathic students and residents.

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• What is the NBOME ?

• National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners

• The examination taken by allopathic medical students and residents to assess achievement of a minimum level of global knowledge as a requirement for licensure.

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• What is the USMLE ?

• United States Medical Licensing Exam