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Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) sets the standards for graduate medical education (residency and fellowship) programs and the institutions that sponsor them. CHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is committed to meeting the compliance standards of ACGME, by providing trainees with the optimal clinical learning environment focusing on patient safety, health care quality, teaming, supervision, well-being and professionalism.

Patient Safety (PS): Patient Safety works to address patient safety vulnerabilities in order to deliver the highest quality of patient care.

Health Care Quality (HQ): Healthcare Quality pathways, work to provide residents and fellows with experiential and interprofessional training on quality improvement.

Teaming (T): The Teaming pathway focuses on bringing the clinical care team together, in order to achieve common vision and goals in the delivery of patient care.

Supervision (S): The Supervision Pathway focuses on equipping the clinical care team, on how to raise supervision concerns, along with monitoring resident and fellow supervision in efforts to enhance patient safety.

Well Being (WB): The Well-being (WB) pathway, emphasizes the importance of consistent and sustainable, safe, high-quality patient care, which can only be achieved when the clinical learning environment ensures the well-being of clinical care providers.

Professionalism (P): This pathway recognizes the direct impact professionalism has on the quality and safety of patient care, and has mechanisms in place for reporting concerns around professionalism.