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- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
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- Advanced cardiac life support
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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- Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers
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- Chief executive officer
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- Congestive heart failure
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- Clinical Learning Environment Review
- CME
- Continuing medical education
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- Chief operating officer
- COPD
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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- Designated institutional official
- DNR
- Do not resuscitate
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- Emergency department
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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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- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
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- Intensive care unit
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- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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- Master of public health
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- National Initiative
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- Plan, Do, Study, Act
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- Postgraduate year
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- Residency Review Committee
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- World Health Organization
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