title: Starting a new residency program: a step-by-step guide for institutions, hospitals, and program directors.
abstract: Although our country faces a looming shortage of doctors, constraints of space, funding, and patient volume in many existing residency programs limit training opportunities for medical graduates. New residency programs need to be created for the expansion of graduate medical education training positions. Partnerships between existing academic institutions and community hospitals with a need for physicians can be a very successful means toward this end. Baylor College of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of San Antonio were affiliated in 2012, and subsequently, we developed and received accreditation for a new categorical pediatric residency program at that site in 2014. We share below a step-by-step guide through the process that includes building of the infrastructure, educational development, accreditation, marketing, and recruitment. It is our hope that the description of this process will help others to spur growth in graduate medical training positions.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, The Children's Hospital of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA; barajaz@bcm.edu.
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Barajaz
authors: The Department of Pediatrics, Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship in Medical Education, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors: Teri
authors: T
authors: Turner
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D003479:Curriculum; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013192:Staff Development
keywords: funding; graduate medical education; physician shortage