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Update to Core Curriculum – March 2006

This Core Curriculum Outline (or Word version) is a substantial and comprehensive revision of the previous ACR Core Curriculum Outline for Program Directors that is designed to reflect the importance of competency-based training and assessment in graduate medical education, as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and to emphasize the six general competencies.

These are:

• Medical Knowledge

• Patient Care

• Practice-based Learning and Improvement Systems-based Practice

• Interpersonal and Communications Skills Professionalism

The revised curriculum outline is organized by these competencies.

Suggested core curriculum outline - consistent with the requirements of the Residency Review Committee for training in rheumatology and serves as a guide for training program directors and fellows in meeting the requirements of the Residency Review Committee

Principles Governing Industry Support for Rheumatology Fellowship Training

The ACR has developed an official statement about appropriate industry relations with fellows and training programs. It was approved by the Committee on Training and Workforce Issues and the ACR Board of Directors in summer 2005, and was disseminated to program directors at that time.

Fellows-in-Training List

To make sure your fellows are on the e-mailing list to receive periodic updates from the ACR about trainee activities and offerings, please have them e-mail their contact information to , Manager, Research and Training. They should include their name, address, phone, fax, e-mail, program name/type (adult or pediatric) and year of fellowship.

Resources

The ACR has a number of resources for training program directors to use, and to share with their trainees. Use the links below to explore these resources further.

• Sample fellowship curriculum

• Sample evaluation forms - for fellows to evaluate training programs, fellows to evaluate teaching faculty, and faculty to evaluate trainees in both clinical and research components

• High Impact Rheumatology Curriculum

• Suggested reading list - an annotated bibliography for fellows on the most common rheumatic conditions

• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

• About the NRMP Fellowship Match

• ERAS Programs Site

• ERAS Participants

• ERAS Timeline for Fellowship Programs

Opportunities for Fellows-In-Training

• Distinguished Fellow Awards

• Fellows-in-Training Travel Scholarship (FIT)

• European Workshop for Rheumatology Research (EWRR)

• Fellows Subcommittee

Rheumatology Training Programs

• Adult

• Pediatric

Funding Opportunities

• There are several training and research awards available through the ACR Research and Education Foundation.

• Funding opportunities through foundations & other sources.

The ACR thanks Abbott Laboratories, Amgen Inc., and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Inc. and Biogen Idec and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for their generous support of the 2009 ACR Fellows Education Fund.