LSU Health Shreveport (LSUHS) has received continued accreditation with no citations from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The ACGME is an independent organization that sets and monitors professional education standards essential in preparing physicians to deliver safe, high-quality medical care and oversees the accreditation of residency and fellowship programs in the United States. Residency and fellowship, or graduate medical education (GME), refers to the period of education and training in a particular specialty or subspecialty after a physician’s graduation from medical school.
The ACGME requires institutions to comply with regulations such as providing residents and fellows with financial compensation, supportive training services and a collaborative work and education environment where residents and fellows engage with patient care, quality improvement, supervision, accountability and more. Institutions must meet these requirements annually and those that do not meet the provided standards may receive citations or lose accreditation.
James D. Morris, MD, FACG, FACP, AGAF, FASGE, Designated Institutional Official expresses the following statement: “Thank you to all who teach, heal, and discover to train our residents and fellows in graduate medical education, the formative years of training following medical school. Thank you to the staff in the GME Office, Program Directors, and Program Administrators for their commitment to ensuring a quality training environment for our trainees.”
LSU Health Shreveport has 44 ACGME accredited programs as well as the soon-to-be separately accredited Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Residencies. There are more than 600 residents and fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. There are also more than 5,000 LSUHS resident and fellow alumni. LSU Health Shreveport is the largest provider of graduate medical education in North and Central Louisiana. In the 2023-2024 academic year, the ACGME accredited 13,393 residency and fellowship programs of which 5,866 were specialty programs (which includes medically related programs) and 7,527 were subspecialty programs. There were 905 sponsoring institutions housing accredited programs and 162,644 active residents and fellows in ACGME accredited programs.