TAGME Medical Education 5

Question 1

A program coordinator notices that required scholarly activity reports are incomplete for several faculty members. Whose primary responsibility is it to ensure faculty scholarly activity requirements are met?

Accepted Answer

The Program Director

Answer

The Program Director is ultimately responsible for ensuring that faculty fulfill all ACGME requirements, including participation in scholarly activity.

Question 2

What is the primary distinction between a 'core faculty' member and an 'affiliated faculty' member in an ACGME program?

Accepted Answer

Core faculty have a significant portion of their professional effort devoted to the program, while affiliated faculty have less formal involvement

Answer

Core faculty are those with a substantial and defined commitment to the program's educational mission, whereas affiliated faculty participate in a more limited or adjunct capacity.

Question 3

Which of the following scenarios requires mandatory reporting to the ACGME by a Designated Institutional Official (DIO)?

Accepted Answer

A resident is dismissed or resigns from a program

Answer

The DIO must report resident or fellow attrition events, including dismissals, resignations, or other departures, to the ACGME through the Accreditation Data System.

Question 4

Under ACGME well-being requirements, which of the following must programs provide to residents?

Accepted Answer

Access to confidential mental health services without fear of jeopardizing training status

Answer

ACGME requires that residents have access to confidential, readily available mental health services, and programs must ensure that seeking such services does not jeopardize their training.

Question 5

What is 'entrustable professional activity' (EPA) as used in competency-based GME?

Accepted Answer

A specific clinical task that can be entrusted to a trainee without supervision once sufficient competency is demonstrated

Answer

EPAs are defined units of professional practice—tasks or responsibilities—that can be entrusted to a trainee to perform unsupervised when they have demonstrated the required competencies.

TAGME - Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education Practice Test

TAGME - Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education Practice Test

TAGME Medical Education 5