- AAMC
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- ABPMR
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- ACGME
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- ACOG
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- APD
- Assistant program director
- APE
- Annual program evaluation
- CEO
- Chief executive officer
- CGCAHPS
- Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
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- Clinical Learning Environment Review
- CME
- Continuing medical education
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- Chief medical officer
- CMS
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- COPD
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- DIO
- Designated institutional official
- EBM
- Evidence-based medicine
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- Electronic health record
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- Electronic medical record
- ENT
- Ear, nose, and throat
- GME
- Graduate medical education
- GMEC
- Graduate Medical Education Committee
- IHI
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- IRB
- Institutional review board
- M&M
- Morbidity and mortality
- MO
- Medical officer
- MOC
- Maintenance of certification
- MS3, MS4
- Medical student in third year/fourth year, respectively
- NAS
- Next Accreditation System
- NCQA
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- NI III
- National Initiative III
- OB
- Obstetrics
- PBLI
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- PD
- Program director
- PDSA
- Plan, Do, Study, Act
- PGY
- Postgraduate year
- PI
- Performance improvement / Process improvement
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- Process improvement science
- PS
- Patient safety
- Q&S
- 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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