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Definitions of categories of College of Medicine policies: |
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College of Medicine UIC (COM) policy |
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A policy that affects more than one regional COM, or a policy that is necessary to ensure overall UIC-COM compliance with statutory, ACGME, University, or COM policies, rules, and/or regulations will be identified as a College of Medicine policy. |
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COM-Regional policy |
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A policy that affects a single region of the COM, or is necessary to ensure compliance with statutory, ACGME, University, or COM policies, rules, and/or regulations will be identified as a COM-Region policy. The current regions are COM-Chicago, COM-Peoria, COM-Rockford, and COM-Urbana-Champaign. |
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Department and Program policy |
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A policy set by a single Department or Program for an individual residency training program that does not affect other programs or the College of Medicine, and does not conflict with COM or any COM-Region policy, will be identified as department/program policy. |
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GME Committee |
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Each COM region will establish a committee that follows ACGME General Requirements and advises and monitors all aspects of resident education. For the Chicago region, this committee is called the Committee for Graduate Medical Education (GMEC). |
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Setting COM-Chicago policy |
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Any faculty, resident, or University staff member may submit suggestions for addition, deletion, or change to COM-Chicago policy to the Office of Graduate Medical Education. |
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The Associate Dean for GME will review all such submissions and as appropriate include them in the agenda for the GMEC. |
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The GMEC will review policy recommendations, and recommend approval changes by majority vote. The Committee may modify recommended policy as appropriate. |
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The GMEC will be responsible for ensuring that all COM-CHICAGO policies are consistent with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education General Requirements, University policy, College of Medicine policy, and applicable state and federal law. |
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Setting Department/Program policy |
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Each Department Head and Residency Program Director may set policies to meet applicable RRC and Specialty Requirements, and other operating policies as they see fit, as long as the policies do not conflict with Specialty Requirements, applicable COM-CHICAGO policies or University policy. |
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The GMEC will review department/program policies during each program's Internal Review, and recommend any changes to the Program Director . |
| Policy and Procedure I. Policy on Policies |
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May 11, 1992 |
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Joint Committee on Graduate Medical Education |
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February 29, 1997 GMEC |
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February 12, 1999 GMEC |
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October 7, 2011 GMEC administrative update |
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