Institutional Agreements

POLICY: AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND PARTICIPATING SITES

PURPOSE:

To establish an institutional policy to enable the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Committee to monitor and ensure that all GME programs within the institution comply with the ACGME Institutional and Common Requirements regarding institutional affiliation agreements and program letters of agreement with other sites.

POLICY:

Institutional Affiliation Agreements must exist between the Sponsoring Institution and all of its major participating sites.  Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) will retain responsibility for the quality of the GME experience and will retain authority over the residents’ activities when resident education occurs at other participating sites.

Assignments must:

1. be based on a clear educational rationale;
2. must have clearly stated learning objectives and activities; and
3. should provide resources not otherwise available at SBUH

Program Letters of Agreement between SBUH sponsored programs and each participating site must:

1. identify the faculty who will assume educational and supervisory responsibilities for the residents;
2. specify the faculty responsibilities for teaching, supervision and formal evaluation of resident performance;
3. specify the duration and content of the educational experience;
4. state the policies and procedures that govern the residents’ education during the assignment;
5. outline the educational goals and objectives to be attained by the residents;

Reviewed November 21, 2003
Approved: November 24, 2003
Revised and Approved: November 17, 2008
Reviewed and Approved: November 19, 2012