Chicago, IL, Dec. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Accrediting Council for Higher Medical Education (ACGME) is pleased to release the CLER 2022 National Results Report: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Clinical Learning Environment. ACGME’s Clinical Learning Environment Review Program (CLER) provides leaders in hospitals, medical centers, and other clinical settings with formative feedback through site visits that explore six areas: patient safety; quality of physical care; Vigilance; As a team; Welfare; and Professionalism.
This specially commissioned 18-month protocol evaluated aspects of CLER’s six concentration spaces and explored exclusive spaces, such as the pandemic’s effect on advertising and clinical operations and the upcoming effect on Advanced Medical Education (EME). The report identifies opportunities to optimize patient care and GME to address demanding situations that would likely persist as clinical facilities recover from the acute stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The protocol, which was delivered through remote technology, was administered to about three hundred sponsoring establishments accredited by the ACGME.
“This report highlights the extent to which COVID-19 has impacted our nation’s clinical learning environments and provides insight into opportunities in the coming years to leverage the innovation that has occurred in those settings while tracking pandemic disruptions,” said the ACGME president. and Executive Director, Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP.
In addition, the report presents detailed findings highlighting opportunities for patient education and care, and notes an increase in the use of remote technology; gaps in citizen and peer participation in investigations of patient protection occasions; and gender differences in clinical learning environments similar to diversity, equity and inclusion.
“The pandemic has had a monumental effect on our healthcare environment and presented an unprecedented learning opportunity. This report provides the first comprehensive national review of how our clinical learning environment has withstood the first influence of this pandemic and how this can lead to innovations in patient care as well as ACGME-accredited graduate medical education,” said ACGME’s Director of Sponsoring Institutions and Director of the Clinical Learning Environment, Kevin B. Weiss, MD, MPH.
For more information about the CLER program, the ACGME website.
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ACGME is a private, nonprofit professional organization guilty of accrediting 12,740 residency and scholarship systems and the approximately 871 establishments that sponsor those systems in the United States. The residency and scholarship systems exercise approximately 153,843 citizens and fellows in 182 specialties and subspecialties. The CGME project is to take care of the physical condition and physical condition of the population through the comparison and improvement of the quality of the exercise of citizens and medical colleagues through advances in accreditation and exercise.