ACGME Global Services
Advancing the ACGME Mission by working with global entities to enhance the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education.
ACGME Global Services is a department of the ACGME created to advance the ACGME Mission by working with global entities to enhance the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education. The Global Services staff works to support improvements in health care and population health beyond US borders through collaboration, education, information exchange, and advisory services.
My challenge is, this [post-graduate medical education in Indonesia] has to be equal in standard or better, and also focus on patient care and safety."
- Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Republic of Indonesia
Learn more about ACGME’s collaboration with Indonesia’s Ministry of Health by reviewing Newsroom and Blog Updates from Global Services
Three Strategic Areas of Focus:
Advancing Post-Graduate Medical Education
The importance of post-graduate medical education (PGME) cannot be understated in the delivery of health services, and the ACGME believes accreditation is an effective tool for advancing the quality of PGME programs.
The impact of PGME in preparing physicians to serve the public is well documented. It is with this education, training, and experience that physicians form their individual identity as a specialist, learning not only the “how” of their chosen specialty (the knowledge and skills of their chosen discipline), but also the “who” they must be to manage the stress and expectations they will encounter in a life of service to their patients.
Learn more about the ACGME’s thoughts on global PGME through The ACGME and Global Health series on the ACGME Blog.
Education
Global Services offers various educational programs, trainings, and workshops tailored to the needs of PGME programs outside of the US. For example:
- Numerous assets curated from the ACGME’s vast distance learning resources, from faculty development to the Milestones, are available through the dedicated Global Services section in the ACGME’s online learning portal, Learn at ACGME: Learn with ACGME Global Services.
- Global-focused articles published by the Journal of Graduate Medical Education are also promoted by Global Services.
Advisory Services
ACGME Global Services has extensive knowledge and insights to assist organizations with post-graduate medical education at all levels of development, drawing from the ACGME’s experience with accreditation of more than 13,000 residency/fellowship programs in the US. ACGME Global Services provides support in developing and implementing locally relevant standards based on recognized global principles.
Global Services does not provide accreditation. ACGME International, a separate corporate entity from the ACGME and Global Services, accredits Sponsoring Institutions and residency/fellowship programs outside the US.