AOA Residencies No Longer Allowed to Accept Trainees w/o ACGME App in Place

Updated Aug. 28, 2015: The AOA Board of Trustees last month approved several key postdoctoral standards to protect residents during the transition to the single GME accreditation system.

Standard 10.5(a) states, “AOA programs that do not apply for ACGME accreditation cannot accept new trainees after July 1 of the year in which the resident can complete their training by June 30, 2020.” This means that AOA-accredited residency programs that have not entered into the ACGME...

AOA Residencies No Longer Allowed to Accept Trainees w/o ACGME App in Place

AOA Residencies No Longer Allowed to Accept Trainees w/o ACGME App in Place