The ACGME is a private, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization that sets standards for US graduate medical education (residency and fellowship) programs and the institutions that sponsor them, and renders accreditation decisions based on compliance with these standards. In academic year 2019-2020, there were approximately 865 ACGME-accredited ...
Parallel to the accreditation process, the ACGME’s Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) assesses the resident and fellow learning environment within each Sponsoring Institution. The feedback provided by the CLER program is designed to improve how clinical sites engage resident and fellow physicians in learning to provide safe, high ...