We invite freestanding hospitals and health care institutions providing medical education to medical students, interns and residents to join KCU-GME Consortium.

The conditions of membership for affiliate members in the KCU-GME Consortium are:

• Acknowledgement of KCU-GME Consortium requirements by contributing to the consortium's AOA annual report and/or ACGME annual institutional review
• Bylaws in place which note equivalence of specialty certification by the American Board of Medical Specialties for the purpose of obtaining hospital privileges
• Notification to the consortium of any subsequent, substantive program change(s) made, accompanied by follow-up notification to the appropriate Specialty College or ACGME RC

Physicians must continually focus on professional development and furthering their understanding the scientific advances in medicine. A primary goal of KCU-GME Consortium is to promote and support the scholarly efforts of our affiliates.

As an affiliate, you are provided with several resources.

Research Opportunities and Resources

• Search comprehensive databases and sign up for email alerts
• Sponsorship and grants: Proposal review and grant funding applications
• Compliance protocol review and Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• Certification of human subjects protection training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
• Survey development and deployment
• Statistical analysis
• Collaboration with Basic Science faculty
• Utilization of KCU facilities upon request
• Research at the KCU D'Angelo Library
• Resident Library Resources

Additional Resources

• Academic Calendar
• Anatomy Lab
• Simulation Lab
• Technology