GME Institutional Coordinator

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Background The NIH Clinical Center is the sponsoring institution at the National Institutes of Health responsible for the administrative support and oversight of graduate medical education programs designed to train physicians, recruited through a competitive nation-wide search process in 24 nationally recognized medical/surgical specialties. These graduate medical education programs provide prescribed structured, standardized clinical and research training experiences to these physicians that permits their certification as specialists in a recognized medical or surgical field by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a national organization that has established a process for verifying the competence of individual physicians in such recognized medical or surgical specialty fields. However, the prescribed standards and program structure required for the training for physicians in a given medical or surgical specialty field are developed and verified, both for training programs and institutions which sponsor those training programs, through a national process of accreditation established by another organization, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), located in Chicago, Illinois. The ACGME is an independent, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that accredits approximately 905 sponsoring institutions (such as the NIH Clinical Center), and approximately 13,000 residency programs in 146 specialties or subspecialties that educate about 162,000 residents nationally. Its mission is to improve health care and population health by assessing and advancing the quality of physician education and training through the process of accreditation. Role of GME Institutional Coordinator The GME Institutional Administrator is integral to the effective management of the over 50 NIH Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs and a stipulated requirement of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the accrediting organization of the NIH GME programs. Identified by the NIH director as NIH’s first priority, training future biomedical scientists is mission-critical: “NIH training programs should focus on training future physicians and scientists to lead American preeminence in biomedical research in the 21st century.” Well-executed institutional management of accredited and non-accredited GME programs, directly charged with developing the future workforce of physician-scientists, by the NIH Executive Director of GME, with a dedicated GME Institutional Program Administrator, is critical to the NIH mission of training. Responsibilities of the Contractor The contractor providing services for the GME Institutional Coordinator position is expected to complete the following responsibilities: Provide Technical knowledge and support in developing and evaluating the fellowship program, establishing process and procedures and maintaining files. Develop and prepare documents, including agreements, required for the maintenance of accreditation of the institutional graduate medical education program Prepare various detailed reports for use by upper management including reports required to maintain accreditation of the program Prepare correspondence, reports and other written material Review, research, and announce on NIH policies and procedures Evaluate, develop, and implement the fellowship program, including the maintenance of files and documents and assess process and procedures and recommend improvements where needed Perform analysis of existing program databases; plan modifications of such databases; analyze and present selected program data to program staff and teaching faculty Research resources, services, policies and regulations and inform the staff and fellows about all changes in policies and procedures impacting fellowship training and education within the specialty Coordinate all interactions regarding compliance with the external organizations that accredit and regulate clinical training and specialty and subspecialty certification 1 Analyze, develop and implement new recruiting processes and a variety of training programs. Collaborate with staff to maintain accurate descriptions of graduate medical education training program requirements and application processes Develop and implement new recruiting processes Collaborate with staff on developing institutional GME program out…