Overview

Sunapee^GME is a software system designed specifically for Residency Program Directors and Coordinators to distribute and track requirements and assignments for residents in training programs. The strategy gives ownership and responsibility of assignments—from ACLS to lectures—to residents. Rubrics allow objective evaluation of core competencies. Notifications and reporting are automatic. Documentation is seamless.

Key Questions

• Does your 20%-time mean nights and weekends?
• Is your wellness impacted by documentation, workload, and ACGME site visits?
• How do you handle residents falling below expectations?
• Does the thought of an ACGME site visit fill you with dread?
• If your program coordinator quits, can you keep up?
• Do you need objective criteria for evaluations?
• Would you like residents to take ownership of GME and hospital requirements?
• Would you like a simple, robust, time-saving system with fingertip access to performance data?

Features

• Cloud-based data storage.

  Access anywhere with internet service.

• Web-based application.

  Residents can complete assignments, attestations, and upload documents.

Recurring Issues That Motivated The Development of Sunapee^GME

• Program Requirements
  • ACLS: “My ACGME site visit was 3 weeks away and I found half my residents' ACLS was expired.”
  • Yearly Lecture: “Tracking departmental presentation requirements is a nightmare.”
  • Scholarly Activity: “I think they're doing something… but can I prove it?”
  • Reminding: “I spend too much time nudging people.”
  • The list goes on.

  If only there were a simple way to track, remind, and record completion...

• Mandatory Education
  • “We struggle to meet non-clinical lecture requirements. Residents miss sessions and report gaps on the ACGME survey.”

  If only the material was always available and resident status was automatically tracked...

• Documentation
  • “Everyone says ‘document, document, document’—but where? Emails? Files? Texts?”

  If only there were a structured system for documentation...

• Files & Documents
  • PLAs, policies, learning objectives...

  If only there were an easy way to manage documents—and confirm access and familiarity...

• Expectations
  • Performance, presentations, conference attendance.
  • Some residents underperform—do they not understand expectations, or are they non-compliant?

  If only expectations were clearly communicated without repeating yourself constantly...

• Common Program Requirements

  “If these are common requirements, why do we all reinvent solutions?”

  If only...