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This portion of the site connects Residents and Fellows to important topics and timely information and resources. Use the quick links below to select a specific topic.
Resident Participation in Committees
Resident Graduate Medical Education Committee: The Resident Graduate Medical Education Committee (Resident GMEC) provides a forum for residents to meet and discuss work environment and educational issues. The Resident GMEC consists of representatives from each core program, lead by committee-selected chair, vice chair and member-at-large. Representatives from the institution, hospital administration, nurse management and information technology make regular presentations to this group. In collaboration with the Senior Associate Dean, the group meets every month, providing an effective forum for issues to be raised that pertain to the educational and work environment.
The officers represent the group as members of the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC). In addition, the chair also makes a formal report to the Medical Executive Committee each month. Residents and fellows may contact their resident representative or the Officers if there are issues you would like to see discussed.
Hospital Committees: In compliance with the ACGME Institutional requirements, UFCOM-J provides residents and fellows the opportunity to participate on appropriate institutional and departmental committees and councils, where actions affect their education and/or patient care. This is an important experience, as the residents play an active role in the committees by providing input into decision-making on behalf of quality patient care. In addition, through committee participation, the residents and fellows have a venue through which to develop physician leadership.
The committee opportunities at Shands Jacksonville, and chairs of these committees are:
- Ethics Committee:
Chair: Kamela Scott, PhD
Contact: Tamiko Bailey
Meeting date/time: 4th Tuesday every other month at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Clinic Center, 8th Floor Conference Room - Infection Control Committee:
Chair: Nilmarie Guzman, M.D.
Contact: Darlene Carey
Meeting date/time: 3rd Thursday of each month at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Swisher Room, Tower I, 10th Floor - IT Steering Committee:
Chair: Steven Blumberg, Vice President SHJ Administration
Contact: Betty Kelley
Meeting date/time: 3rd Wednesday of each month at 2:00 p.m.
Location: Shands Boardroom, LRC, 4th Floor - Patient Safety Committee:
Chair: Sandy McDonald, R.N.
Contact: Ann Marie Harvey
Meeting date/time: 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 a.m.
Location: Birch/Cherry Room, LRC, 1st Floor - Performance Improvement Committee:
Chair: Constance Haan, M.D.
Contact: Arlene Coleman
Meeting date/time: 1st Tuesday of each month at 7:30 a.m.
Location: Shands Boardroom, LRC, 4th Floor. - Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee:
Chair: Malcolm Foster, M.D.
Contact: Thanh Hogan
Meeting date/time: 4th Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m.
Location: Deal Boardroom, LRC, 4th Floor - Resident Nurse Council:
Chair/Contact: Mary Parry, M.S., R.N.
Meeting date/time: 4th Tuesday of the month at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Clinical Center, Radiology Conference Room, 2nd floor - Resuscitation Committee:
Chair: Andy Godwin, M.D.
Contact: Cynthia Gerdik
Meeting date/time: 3rd Wednesday of each month at 9:00 a.m.
Location: EMS library, Emergency Medicine Offices - Policy & Bylaws Committee:
Chair: Martin Northup, M.D.
Contact: Kellie Howard
Meeting date/time: 1st Tuesday of each month at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Deal Boardroom, LRC, 4th Floor.
This committee reviews ethical decision-making challenges presented by physicians and/or patients and families. The committee provides resource to providers in the “gray areas” of patient advocacy and decision-making, as well as making recommendations or resolving conflict. The hospital Ethics Committee makes recommendations and reports to the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee.
The Infection Control Committee is responsible for review and oversight of hospital infection epidemiology and prevention endeavors. Data on prevalence of infections by key areas of the hospital are reviewed, and strategies proposed to control infection rates. Community-acquired infection rates are monitored, and nosocomial infections are targeted for prevention. Infection Control Committee reports on data trends and PI activities to the Performance Improvement Committee.
The IT Steering Committee review all proposals and requests for new IT software and support within the hospital, and sets recommendations and priorities for capital budget IT purchases and implementation.
This committee coordinates and oversees patient safety endeavors and improvements for the hospital. The patient safety activities are guided primarily by The Joint Commission standards and the National Patient Safety Goals. Patient Safety Committee measures and outcomes are reported to the Performance Improvement Committee.
The Performance Improvement Committee (PIC) provides hospital-wide review and oversight of all quality measures and outcomes and performance improvement endeavors. Data from both clinical and non-clinical hospital services and departments are reviewed and PI opportunities and methodologies identified. Performance Improvement Committee reports and recommendations are presented to the hospital Medical Executive Committee.
The P&T committee oversees all pharmacologic agents on the hospital formulary, evaluating and recommending new drugs to be added to the formulary, those meds that should be removed from the formulary (for effectiveness, risk or cost issues), and recommending guidelines for special use circumstances for meds that pose higher risk to patients. P&T Committee recommendations are presented to the Shands Jacksonville Medical Executive Committee for approval.
The Nurse-Resident Council is an advocacy group that comes together to identify and resolve issues related to patient care and communication, to design improvement efforts that provide mutual benefit to these two groups on the frontlines of patient care delivery.
The Shands Jacksonville Resuscitation Committee reviews all Code Blue activations and Rapid Response Team activities, to assess processes and procedures for impact on patient outcomes—including code blue survival to discharge and hospital mortality rate. The Resuscitation Committee reports to the Performance Improvement Committee.
Policies and Bylaws Committee reviews all proposed policies, forms, and bylaws for Shands Jacksonville, and makes recommendations to the Medical Executive Committee on same.
Residents are also encouraged and invited to participate in other Shands Jacksonville committees, as their specialty and advocacy interests for process improvement may apply.
Residents also participate in selected committees at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, including the following:
- PICU Quality Improvement Committee
- Pediatric Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
- Infection Control Committee
- Patient Safety and Improvement Committee
- Ethics Committee
- WCH Continuing Medical Education Committee
- Medical Steering Committee
- GME Oversight Committee
The implementation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of resident duty hours standards in 2003 represents a significant initiative designed to create an environment in which residents have time to learn medicine, and to safely and effectively participate in patient care and educational activities. In addition to the UFCOM-J polices and the ACGME Common Duty Hour Requirements, each Ppogram may implement policies that meet or exceed these standards for resident duty hours, in addition to specific monitoring practices. Please see your individual program policies for any specific requirements set forth by your program.
We have established several methods of oversight of resident duty hours to ensure all programs are compliant with the requirements. Two such methods are:
- The Duty Hours Hotline enables Residents and Fellows to report duty hour noncompliance issues in a secure and confidential environment. All submissions are treated in a serious and confidential manner.
- Residents and fellows will periodically be asked to log on to the confidential web-based residency management system, New Innovations, to provide documentation and assessment of actual duty hours through the required Duty Hours Assessment Survey.
The University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville utilizes a web-based residency management system, New Innovations, for submission of required confidential faculty evaluations and resident surveys. Your program assistant/residency coordinator will provide you with username and password and assist with any logon issues.
Residents can be assured of confidentiality when completing faculty evaluations. While it is possible to track who has not completed an evaluation or survey, the actual content of the individual responses is highly confidential and is not linked to the respondent's identity.
UFCOM-J requires that each resident and fellow evaluate all appropriate faculty members annually during the month of March, although individual programs may have additional requirements and schedules. In addition, the Senior Associate Dean conducts an annual All-Campus Resident Survey. Notification and instructions will be broadcast to all residents/fellows at the appropriate times.
All residency programs require their residents to train and develop in the six general competency domains, as defined by the ACGME, to the level expected of a new practitioner. Toward this end, programs must define the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes required and provide educational experiences as needed for their residents to demonstrate the competencies. Furthermore, programs must assess the outcomes of these educational experiences.
Moonlighting/Outside Activities
All residents and fellows must adhere to the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville Resident Moonlighting Policy which recognizes two categories of moonlighting: (1) internal activity and (2) external activity. Both have specific requirements that must be met. Individual residency programs have total authority to choose whether moonlighting activities are allowed for residents within their program. All moonlighting activity must have prior approval by the program director and the senior associate dean for educational affairs. Please refer to your individual program policies for more specific information.