HCPro.com: Residency Program Alert

There has never been a tougher time to be running a residency training program in hospitals and clinics than right now-no matter what your specialty. From new work hour limitations to new outcome criteria for successful training and tougher JCAHO standards, you've got your work cut out for you in 2004 and 2005. That's why nearly 1,000 of your colleagues turn to Residency Program Director's Alert each month. You need to lead and supervize the shaping of each of your residents. Let us provide you with the step-by-step advice and tools you need to avoid the most common deficits and mix-ups in the administrative and practical areas of residency program operation!

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July 2008 (Volume 6, Issue 7)	view entire issue

Salary survey shows income discrepancies of residency coordinators
Editor's note: We use the term "residency coordinator" to describe our readers who are administrators of residency programs. Some respondents of the survey listed other titles besides residency coordinator. Curious about how much other residency coordinators and GME professionals in your field are making? So was RPA. We conducted our annual salary survey in May to determine how factors such as job duties, resident numbers, education level, and location affect your salaries.

Book excerpt: The Residency Program Director's Handbook
Editor's note: The text below is excerpted from HCPro's The Residency Program Director's Handbook, by Robert V. Higgins, MD, vice chair of academic affairs and residency program director in the department of OB/GYN at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. This is an excerpt from "Chapter 12: Graduate medical education funding." Everyone is happy to receive a paycheck as an intern. Most residents assume that the money is generated by patient care revenue. Few residents, and even few faculty members, realize that a resident's paycheck is primarily supported by the federal government.

Strategies for recruitment: Make the hard sell
As a residency program administrator, sales are probably not your forte. Despite this, you're still expected to sell your program or institution every year during the interview season. Recruitment can be a difficult task, especially if one of the following situations applies to you: Your institution is in a lesser-known locale Your specialty is experiencing low interest among candidates You're trying to recruit minorities underrepresented in medicine

Other recently-published articles from Residency Program Alert:

Navigating the ins and outs of ERAS

Caught in the middle: Managing your role as liaison between the program director and residents

A guide for safe blogging: Protect bloggers in your program from getting in trouble with HIPAA

Show me the money

The get-ahead guide for coordinators

Get the most out of your 360-degree evaluations

Put residents at the center of quality improvement initiatives

Tips for acing your ACGME site visit

Strategies for recruitment: Make the hard sell

Book excerpt: The Residency Program Director’s Handbook

Salary survey shows income discrepancies of residency coordinators

Develop a curriculum for a resident teacher training program

Getting the most out of your surveys

Set standards for criminal background checks

Sharpen residents’ teaching skills

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