ACGME Fellowship Definition

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ACGME Fellowship Definition

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) information section of the Institutional Requirements states the definition of a Fellow: A term used by some sponsoring institutions and in some specialties to designate participants in subspecialty graduate medical education (GME) programs. The GME Director and the ACGME use resident to designate all GME participants in ACGME-accredited programs.

ACGME calls the programs they accredit residencies and reserves the fellowships for those programs that do not fall with in the ACGME accreditation system.

These fellowship programs are private arrangements made between an institution and the individual who trains in them. They are not accredited by the RRC/ACGME and they do not lead to certification (CAQ) by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

The only fellowships that are accredited by the RRC/ACGME and lead to certification (CAQ) by ABFP are in geriatrics, sports medicine, and adolescent medicine.

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