2010-07-02

The Accrediation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has posted its proposed new standards on duty hours developed by a special task force convened to review, deliberate, and draft new standards that will go into effect July 2011. ASH will be drafting a response to the proposal and invites fellows and training program directors to submit comments by July 16 to training@hematology.org.

The timeline for implementation, according to the ACGME website:

On June 18, 2010, the task force presented the draft standards to the ACGME board and the Council of Review Committees, a group made up of the chairs of the Residency Review Committees, which review residency programs in the various specialties. Following input from these groups, the standards were posted for public comment on June 23 for 45 days. After all public comments are reviewed and considered, the final version of the standards will go to the Committee on Requirements of the ACGME Board for approval and, if approved, to the full board in September 2010. Pending approval by the Board, the final standards will be implemented in July 2011.