Residency Policies & Procedures

III. RESIDENCY TRAINING COMMITTEES

Resident Education Steering Committee (RESC)

The Resident Education Steering Committee is responsible for the following:

• Program development, curriculum review, program evaluation:  Responsibilities in this area are carried out on a daily basis by a subcommittee of the RESC (the Curriculum Review Committee).  The Curriculum Review Committee reports proposals for curriculum change as well as program evaluation data (PRITE, exams, mock boards, etc.) to the RESC.
• Establishing educational standards for the clinical rotations, ongoing evaluation of clinical rotations; all required and elective rotations need to be approved by the RESC.
• Resident admission, evaluation, and advancement; the Admissions Committee and the Site Coordination Committee report to the RESC.  The RESC approves the Annual Review for Advancement for each resident, carried out by the Site Coordination Committee.
• Establishing administrative policies and procedures and facilitating the flow of communication between faculty and residents around training issues.  Approval of the RESC is required for all standing policies of the training program.  Resident/faculty on-call committees report to the RESC.

Decisions made by the RESC by majority vote of at least 2/3 of the membership, are binding, with the provision that the decision can be appealed to the Chair, who will hear the arguments and make a final determination within sixty days.

The membership includes the following:

• Residency Program Training Director (Chair)
• Recording Secretary (Residency Coordinator)
• Four resident representatives, elected from the Resident Group:
  
  • one from the resident group as a whole
  • one from the PGY-1 year
  • one from the PGY-2 year
  • one from the PGY-3 year
• The five chief residents
• One faculty member for each clinical site (CHRMC, HMC, UWMC, VAPSHCS), elected by the site’s faculty
• The Chair of the Curriculum Review Committee
• A faculty representative from the Community Division, Addiction Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry

The RESC includes the following subcommittees:

• Admissions Committee
• Curriculum Review Committee
• Site Coordination Committee

The RESC meets quarterly, although additional meetings can be requested by a member. The agenda is set by the Training Director. Members can request to have issues placed on the agenda. Recurring issues include approval of the review for advancement (January), resident awards (May), a review by the committee's faculty members of the ethical and professional behavior of graduating residents (May), and a membership review (October).

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