Profession
ACGME director set to retire
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 1, 2007
David C. Leach, MD, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's executive director for a decade, will retire in September.
During Dr. Leach's tenure, the agency adopted duty-hour limits for residents, moved to an outcomes-based evaluation for programs and transitioned to computerized data collection.
Dr. Leach, a board-certified internist and endocrinologist, came to the ACGME from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, where he was director of medical education. He also was an assistant dean for the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. No details were available on a search for a new ACGME executive director.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/01/01/prbf0101.htm.