RT Journal
A1 Trunkey D, Russell T, Dunnington G
T1 COmpetencies
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2003
FD June 1
VO 138
IS 6
SP 672
OP 680
DO 10.1001/archsurg.138.6.672
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.138.6.672
AB 
DR TRUNKEY: IN the next hour or hour and 5 minutes, we will be addressing a problem within medicine and, in particular, in surgery. This is the issue of competency. We will try to limit our comments to about 10 minutes; that will give time for the audience to ask questions. I will address the issues of early and late competency, Dr Dunnington is going to take the issues of the ACGME's [Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's] 6 guidelines for competency, and Tom Russell, representing the American College of Surgeons, is going to address this from the standpoint of processes that the College has initiated to address this very important issue.