Beyond Requirements

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Abstract
IT WAS A HUMBLING and even a frightening experience for the fully accredited general surgery residency at the University of Connecticut, Farmington, to be placed on probation after a site visit by the Residency Review Committee for Surgery (RRC). Academic health centers already faced with severe financial problems must contend with increased expenditures for midlevel practitioners to ensure adequate patient care so that residents can fulfill their educational goals. As teaching faculty, both full-time and volunteer, also have had to increase their clinical workload, time for didactic sessions and mentoring of residents can easily become a casualty.