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Organization of Resident Representatives

The mission of the AAMC's Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR) is to improve resident physician education and training for the purpose of improving the quality of health care. The ORR will improve residency education through programming and professional development, and support AAMC initiatives and goals by providing the resident voice in the AAMC.

Duty Hours

The AAMC has submitted a letter to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), responding to the council's request for comments on an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on resident duty hours (PDF). The IOM report, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety," recommends reforms to resident workloads and duty hours and urges the ACGME to provide better monitoring of duty hour limits, better guidelines for residents' caseloads, and better supervision of residents. In the letter, the AAMC noted that too great a focus on resident duty schedules "will not address–and may distract academic medicine from–the larger issues of detection and management of fatigue, quality of resident supervision, appropriateness of resident workloads, and effectiveness of information transfer among residents and other members of the patient care team." If these larger issues are addressed, the letter notes, the need to regulate resident duty schedules can and should lessen or disappear.—AAMCSTAT, May 4, 2009

Resident Physician Community Service Recognition Award

2008 Recipient

Scott Nelson, M.D.
University of Vermont College of Medicine

Charity Chosen:
University of Vermont Migrant Dairy Farm Worker Mobile Clinic Project

This award is designed to encourage a service ethic among residents by recognizing those who have made contributions to their communities through extra-curricular activity directed toward meeting health or other human needs in the communities in which residents live and train. Nominations for 2009 must be submitted no later than June 30, 2009.

More about the Community Service Recognition Award

Past Resident Physician CSRA Recipients

Meeting Summary and Presentations

ORR Professional Development Conference
Charleston, S.C. - March 5–7, 2009
Presentations and program

Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers

The Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers is a declaration of the fundamental principles of graduate medical education (GME) and the major commitments of both residents and faculty to the educational process, to each other and to the patients they serve. The Compact's purpose is to provide institutional GME sponsors, program directors and residents with a model statement that will foster more open communication, clarify expectations and re-energize the commitment to the primary educational mission of training tomorrow's doctors.

Upcoming Meetings Calendar

Governance Meetings	Administrative board only
2009 AAMC Annual Meeting Boston	Nov. 6-8, 2009
2010 ORR Professional Development Conference (in conjunction with CAS) Austin, Texas	March 4-6, 2010
2010 AAMC Annual Meeting Washington, D.C.	November 5-10, 2010

Professional Development

AAMC Data and Reports

AAMC Survey of Resident/Fellow Stipends and Benefits
Defining the Key Elements of an Optimal Residency Program (PDF, 12 pages)
Medicare Payments for Graduate Medical Education (PDF, 17 pages)
Physician Workforce
Policy Guidance on GME
Resident Physician and Medical Industry Interactions: Guiding Principles (PDF, 4 pages)

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