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Residency Review Committee for Surgery: An Update
L. D. Britt, MD, MPH;
J. David Richardson, MD
Arch Surg. 2007;142(6):573-575.
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The last few years have been the most challenging period for the Residency Review Committee for Surgery (RRC-S) since its inception in 1950. As the first residency review committee to be established, the committee has a laudable history of contemplative deliberations before implementing any directive from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). For example, debate still surrounds the process for implementing the requirements for the 6 general competencies (patient care, medical knowledge, interpersonal/communication skills, professionalism, practice-based learning/improvement, and system-based practice). However, the ACGME has been unwavering in its advocacy of the competency template as the cornerstone of the learning continuum and outcome assessment. The 6 general competencies can actually be grouped into 3 basic categories: fund of knowledge, skills, and judgment. As highlighted in Table 1, these categories are essentially the same as what Aristotle espoused centuries ago. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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