Healthcare Inspection: Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Issues New Mexico VA Health Care System Albuquerque, New Mexico.

摘要

The VA Office of Inspector General Office of Healthcare Inspections conducted an inspection in response to complaints about the supervision of fellows in the Gastroenterology (GI) Department at the New Mexico VA Health Care System (facility), Albuquerque, NM. The complainant alleged that: (1) The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires GI attending physicians to see patients in person within 24 hours of a fellow seeing a patient, and this is not being done in the facility GI Department; (2) The Chief of GI was co-signing GI Fellow consult notes with 'in lieu of' for University of New Mexico (UNM) GI attending physicians who were not seeing patients; (3) UNM GI attending physicians who see VA patients are not credentialed at the facility; (4) Senior leadership was either unwilling or unable to take corrective action.