Enhancement of Resident Competencies Via Participation in the Peer Review/Quality Improvement Processes and Morbidity and Mortality Presentations.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) section chairs and OMS residency program directors in academic medical centers are very familiar with The Joint Commission's (TJC) standards that enhance quality and safety of patient care and the Commission on Dental Accreditation criteria requiring that residents be provided instruction on ethical reasoning, ethical decision making, professional responsibility, and risk management as they pertain to the quality of care that they and their service provide.1 However, increasingly influential in these processes and possibly less familiar to the OMS community are the precepts of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which oversees physician-based graduate medical education and demands a safe patient-care environment during the learning process (“6 Core Competencies”; Table 1).