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ACGME Common Program Requirements ACGME approved revisions to Sections I-V: effective 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016 ACGME approved major revision of Section VI: February, 2017; effective: July 1, 2017 Common Program Requirements 2017 Accreditation Council for Graduate medical Education ( ACGME ) Page 1 of 27 Common Program Requirements Note: The term resident in this document refers to both specialty residents and subspecialty fellows. Once the Common Program Requirements are inserted into each set of specialty and subspecialty Requirements , the terms resident and fellow will be used respectively. Where applicable, text in italics describes the underlying philosophy of the Requirements in that section. These philosophic statements are not Program Requirements and are therefore not citable. Introduction Residency is an essential dimension of the transformation of the medical student to the independent practitioner along the continuum of medical education.

Common Program Requirements ©2017 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Page 1 of 27 Common Program Requirements Note: The term “resident” in this document refers to both specialty residents and subspecialty

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