T.J. Nasca is president and chief executive officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois, and professor of medicine and molecular physiology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
R. Miller is senior vice president, Applications and Data Analysis, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois.
Acad Med. 2021 Aug 1;96(8):1097-1099. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004111. Epub 2021 Jul 27.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) disturbed the gravitational forces of medical education when they entered into a historic agreement in August 2014. This agreement resulted in a 6-year journey to a single accreditation pathway for all residency programs and nearly all fellowship programs in the United States. It brought together the 2 traditions of medicine in the country for the first time in more than 100 years, unifying a critical phase of medical education for all physicians in the United States. In this commentary, the authors briefly describe the Single Accreditation System and relate their perspective on the factors leading to this profoundly important event and its impact on the ACGME, AOA, and medical education.
美国毕业后医学教育认证委员会（ACGME）、美国骨科协会（AOA）和美国骨科医学院协会（AACOM）于 2014 年 8 月达成了一项历史性协议，撼动了医学教育的根基。该协议开启了美国所有住院医师培训项目和几乎所有专科医师培训项目为期 6 年的单一认证途径之旅。这是 100 多年来美国首次将两种医学传统汇聚在一起，统一了全美所有医生接受的关键医学教育阶段。在这篇评论中，作者简要描述了单一认证系统，并阐述了他们对促成这一具有深远意义的事件的因素及其对 ACGME、AOA 和医学教育的影响的看法。
