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- Association of American Medical Colleges
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- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
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- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- APD
- Assistant program director
- APE
- Annual program evaluation
- CEO
- Chief executive officer
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- Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
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- Clinical Learning Environment Review
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- Continuing medical education
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- Chief medical officer
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- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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- Designated institutional official
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- Evidence-based medicine
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- Electronic health record
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- Ear, nose, and throat
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- Graduate medical education
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- Graduate Medical Education Committee
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- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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- Institutional review board
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- Morbidity and mortality
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- Medical officer
- MOC
- Maintenance of certification
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- Medical student in third year/fourth year, respectively
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- Next Accreditation System
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- National Committee for Quality Assurance
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- National Initiative III
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- Obstetrics
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- Practice-based learning and improvement
- PD
- Program director
- PDSA
- Plan, Do, Study, Act
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- Postgraduate year
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- Performance improvement / Process improvement
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- Process improvement science
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- Patient safety
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- Quality and safety
- QI
- Quality improvement
- QIKAT
- Quality improvement knowledge application tool
- ROI
- Return on investment
- RQC
- Resident quality council
- RRT
- Rapid response team
- S-T-I-R
- Summary, To Do, If-Then, Readback/Feedback
- TJC
- The Joint Commission
- UME
- Undergraduate medical education
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