Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Familiarize yourself with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements, which outline the standards for residency and fellowship programs. These requirements can be found on the ACGME website.
Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognizes the public's need for a physician workforce capable of meeting the challenges of a rapidly evolving health care environment.
The ACGME has responded to this need by implementing the CLER program as a part of its Next Accreditation System. The CLER Program is designed to provide US teaching hospitals, medical centers, health systems, and other clinical settings affiliated with ACGME-accredited institutions with periodic feedback that addresses the following six Focus Areas: Patient Safety; Health Care Quality; Teaming; Supervision; Well-Being; and Professionalism.
The feedback provided by the CLER Program is designed to improve how clinical sites engage resident and fellow physicians in learning to provide safe, high quality patient care.
- Patient Safety
- Health Care Quality
- Teaming
- Health Equity Initiatives
- Well-being
- Professionalism