Impact of ACGME-I Accreditation on Patient Outcomes at Hamad Medical Corporation: A Call for Evidence

It is globally acknowledged that becoming a physician today brings complexities not faced in the past. There is growing evidence for new techniques in patient care as well as advancing technology that brings forth procedures never possible before. Moreover, patients today possess access to more medical information and thus expect the highest of quality. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) focuses on improving the health of society by ensuring that doctors are well trained in all aspects required of competent physicians.1 The death of a young woman, Libby Zion, in a hospital in New York gave this process overwhelming momentum. Investigations revealed that the lack of familiarity with Libby’s complex case, as well as the lack of supervision and resident fatigue, all contributed to the misfortunate event making it ground zero for what followed as a long series of reforms in the medical education system.