Does the ACGME Survey Tell Us What We Need to Know: Using a Graduate Survey to Find Out

In 1998 the ACGME proposed a means of assessing educational outcomes in residency (the Outcome Project), and then in 2013 added a section to their annual survey targeting graduating residents to improve outcomes assessment. The reliability of this data, obtained from residents while still in training, is not known. We administered a survey to former residents 1, 2, and 3 years after graduation to compare to our ACGME surveys.