Improving oversight of the graduate medical education enterprise: one institution's strategies and tools.

Lawrence B Afrin; George W Arana; Franklin J Medio; Angela F. N Ybarra; Harry S Clarke

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Improving oversight of the graduate medical education enterprise: one institution's strategies and tools.

May 10, 2006

Afrin LB, Arana GW, Medio FJ, et al. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(5).

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The authors discuss their implementation of an electronic information system to monitor the graduate medical education program at one university. They share lessons learned from the first 3 years of the project, as well as opportunities for growth.

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