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News from NADIO: Summer 2024 Edition
I hope you are all having a good summer. This is a busy time of year for DIOs, of course. Graduations. New house staff onboarding and orientation. License and visa issues. ADS annual updates. The list goes on and on. Hopefully there was or will be some vacation time for you. The NADIO Executive Committee has been busy, so I wanted to update you on what is going on with NADIO. At last count we are up to almost 300 members! Thank you all for your membership and support.
We have formed a number of committees that will be doing much of the important work of NADIO.
NADIO Council Vice Chairs Committee Members
We are now in the process of electing Council Vice-Chairs. Thank you to everyone who self-nominated. We have asked each candidate to submit a brief description of their interest and qualifications.
Please review their responses here and submit your vote for your Council Vice-Chair by August 9, 2024.
We encourage everyone to participate in the voting process! Thank you again to all who volunteered to join a committee.
NADIO Inaugural Annual Meeting
Plans for our 1st Annual Meeting December 8-10 in St. Louis “Leading GME Together—By DIOs for DIOs” are coming together. If you have not registered, please do so from the NADIO event page.
If you have any contacts who might want be a meeting sponsor and/or display, please email their name and contact to info@nadiogme.org and we will reach out to them (e.g., companies, organizations, anyone at all connected with GME). Also, if your Sponsoring Institution would be interested in becoming an institutional sponsor (which includes the registration fee for you as the DIO), please contact info@nadiogme.org.
It is going to a great meeting with interesting speakers, sessions, workshops, and posters, and plenty of time to socialize and visit exhibits. We hope you can join us in St. Louis this December.
Upcoming On-Line Events
We are going to be scheduling a number of on-line events over the next several months. As communicated recently, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology is working with us to host an educational webinar on the new ResidencyCAS application software platform they are using instead of ERAS.
We are also working with the VA Office of Academic Affiliations to put together a webinar about these affiliations and some changes related to working with VA partners that are going to be coming out.
“The DIO Role in Assisting Programs Preparing for an ACGME Site Visit: Routine, Data-Driven, and Complaint-Initiated” Workshop
NADIO is hosting a virtual educational workshop, led by NADIO Vice-President Cathy Kuhn and NADIO Large Council Chair Susan Guralnik on ACGME Program Site visits.
The NADIO Executive Committee has been discussing whether there should be national initiative among SIs with ACGME accredited fellowships to move all fellowship start dates to a time other than July 1, as has been done by pediatrics (July 7) and orthopaedics surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, and anesthesiology (August 1).The Executive Committee has met with some of those who were instrumental in implementing the change away from July 1 in their disciplines. We think that it would be critical to hear from you about this—would you and your fellowship program directors support such a change, what concerns and questions would you have about this, and what barriers might you encounter? If your SI has fellowship programs that this might affect, give this topic some thought and look for an invitation soon for an open discussion forum about this, probably in September.
Finally, as many of you are aware, the ACGME is expected to release in mid- to late-August extensive proposed revisions to the Sponsoring Institutional Requirements, for review and comment. The NADIO Executive Committee sent a communication to the ACGME asking that this Review and Comment period be extended beyond the usual 45-day period giving the timing (overlap with ADS updates, summer vacations, etc.) and the need to ensure that there is plenty of time for NADIO, each of you, and your institutional GME and executive leaders to digest the proposed revisions, try to understand the operational and financial implications, and hopefully prepare a response to the ACGME. In anticipation of the release of the proposed changes, we wanted to create opportunities for the NADIO Executive Committee to hear your thoughts about the proposed changes and for DIOs to discuss them amongst ourselves. Look soon for more information about dates and times starting in late-August for listening and discussion virtual sessions which will help NADIO craft comments on behalf of the organization and hopefully help you and your SI partners to craft your and their comments.
Well, that is enough for one News from NADIO update. Enjoy the rest of the summer, keep using the NADIO Community discussion platform, and let us know at info@nadiogme.org or by contacting any of the NADIO Executive Committee members if there is any NADIO can do for you. And register for our 1st Annual Meeting!
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