The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates that "There must be a method of documenting the procedures that are performed by the residents. Such documentation must be maintained by the program, be available for review by the site visitor, and be used to provide documentation for future hospital privileges." Swedish Family Medicine Residency Program agrees that the above noted requirement shall be met by having each Resident document said experience on a PDA handheld computer, which will be supplied to each resident by the Program.  

Swedish Family Medicine and the Resident agree that:

1. The PDA is the exclusive property of Swedish Family Medicine Residency. Should Resident lose or damage the PDA through acts of negligence such that it is not useable, the Resident agrees to repair or replace the PDA within 30 days at Resident's expense.

2. Swedish Family Medicine will provide the Resident with a PDA at the beginning of the R1 year. Instruction on how to use the PDA will be provided by Chris Vincent and others.

3. Throughout residency, the Resident will enter the required information on their PDA or online via New Innovations. This is to be done during each hospital-based and office-based rotation and during the family practice center experience.

4. At least once a month the Resident is required to downloaded experiential data. This information will become a part of the permanent record maintained by Swedish Family Medicine. An experiential report will be included as part of Resident's quarterly evaluation with their faculty-advisor.

5. Swedish Family Medicine will provide Resident with a printed summary of their entire residency experience at the conclusion of their residency. This record may be utilized for obtaining future hospital privileges.

6. Resident is required to return the PDAto the residency administration office during the last rotation of the third year of their residency program.

This Agreement shall become effective immediately upon its signing and shall remain in effect until the resident graduates from Swedish Family Medicine or until terminated by either party.