1. Establishing and implementing policies that affect all residency programs regarding the quality of education and the work environment for the residents in each program.
2. Establishing and maintaining appropriate oversight of and liaison with program directors and assuring that program directors establish and maintain proper oversight of and liaison with appropriate personnel of the affiliated hospitals.
3. Reviewing all ACGME letters of accreditation and the monitoring of action plans for correction of areas of non-compliance.
4. Conducting regular internal reviews of all residency and subspecialty programs to assess their compliance with both the ACGME Institutional Requirements and Program Requirements of the relevant ACGME Residency Review Committees.
5. Establishing and implementing institutional guidelines and policies for the selection, evaluation, promotion, and dismissal of residents.
6. Assuring residents of an educational environment in which they may raise and resolve issues without fear of intimidation or retaliation.
7. Establishing and implementing institutional policies and procedures for both the discipline and the adjudication of resident complaints and grievances relevant to the Graduate Medical Education programs.
8. Recommending appropriate and equitable funding for resident positions, including benefits and support services.
9. Monitoring the programs to assure the establishment of an appropriate work environment to include call schedules and duty hours that are in compliance with the relevant ACGME Program Requirements and;
10. Assuring and monitoring that the residents' curriculum provides:
    1. a personal program of learning to foster continued professional growth with guidance from the teaching staff
    2. a regular review of ethical, socioeconomic, medical/legal, and cost-containment issues that affect graduate medical education and medical practice
    3. an appropriate introduction to communication skills and to research design, statistics, and critical review of the literature necessary for acquiring skills for lifelong learning
    4. appropriate institutional committees and council whose actions affect resident education and/or patient care
    5. appropriate resident participation in departmental scholarly activity, as set forth in the applicable program requirements and assume responsibility for teaching and supervising other residents and students
    6. annual confidential written evaluations of the faculty and of the educational experiences.
11. Assuring and monitoring that all programs provide a curriculum and an evaluation system to ensure that residents demonstrate competence in the general areas of:
    1. patient care
    2. medical knowledge
    3. practice-based learning
    4. communication
    5. professionalism
    6. systems-based practice

The chairman of the committee is the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Members of the committee shall include:

• Residency Program Directors or their designees
• Hospital Representatives
• Two faculty members appointed by the Faculty Council
• Eight residents elected by their peers to serve a two-year term (Four elected each year)
• President of the House Staff Association

Adopted by GMEC May 16, 1997
Revised & adopted by GMEC May 14, 1999
Revised & adopted by GMEC April 13, 2001
Revised and adopted by GMEC March 11, 2002