GME Committee Oversight of Program Changes
The GME Committee oversight at Partners is comprised of the Partners Education Committee (PEC) which oversees all physician education at Partners, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Education Committee (BWHEC) and the MGH Executive Committee on Teaching and Education (ECOTE), two hospital-based committees which manage the GME accreditation and infrastructure at the BWH and MGH, respectively.
Partners Education Committee (PEC)
Co-Chairs: Ron Walls, MD, Chair, BWH Emergency Medicine and Ron Kleinman, MD, Chief, MGH Pediatrics
Staff: Diane Sheehan (primary); Irina Knyshevski (secondary)
Brigham and Women's Hospital Education Committee (BWHEC)
Chair: Ron Walls, MD, BWH Emergency Medicine Chair
Staff: Irina Knyshevski (primary); Diane Sheehan (secondary)
MGH Executive Committee on Teaching and Education (ECOTE)
Chair: Ron Kleinman, MD, Chief, MGH Pediatrics
Staff: Diane Sheehan (primary); Irina Knyshevski (secondary)
Partners Education Committee (PEC) oversees and must approve all applications for:
- Institutional sponsorship of any new GME program, non-accredited, ACGME-accredited, and/or accredited by a different body other than ACGME
- GMEC approval of “non-standard” training requiring an ECFMG-sponsored J1 clinical visa
BWHEC/ECOTE oversee and must approve the following prior to a program’s submission of the request to the RRC:
- Appointments of new program directors
- Progress reports requested by the RRC
- All changes in resident/fellow complement, permanent or temporary
- Major changes in program structure or length of training
- Additions and/or deletions of participating institutions
- Requests for exceptions of resident duty hours
- Voluntary withdrawal of program accreditation
- Responses to proposed adverse actions and requests to appeal an adverse action and appeal presentations to a Board of Appeal or the ACGME
Guidelines and required documentation for some of these requests as well as the dates of the Education Committee Meetings are listed below.
Program leadership and administrators should refer all matters regarding GME programs to GME Directors assigned to their specialty.
Further information on program application for Partners Education Committee review can be accessed at Starting a GME Program.
ACGME Accreditation provides additional information regarding the documentation to be submitted to the appropriate GME Committee prior to responding to the RRC.
Program Director Transition
The following documents will guide you in the transition of a program director:
- Program Director Job Description Template
- Program Director Role
- ACGME and GME Committee Approval of New Program Directors
- Program Director Change Form
Trainee Complement
Request for Increase in Resident Complement
Adding and/or Deleting a Participating Institution
Adding or Deleting an Affiliate
Education Committee Meetings
All documentation needed for review by the GME Committee is due one month prior to the date of the meeting and should be directed to Diane Sheehan (MGH programs) or Irina Knyshevski (BWH programs).
Education Committee meetings
GME Topics and Resources
