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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2004
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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 3
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Surgery residency faces probation Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has placed the surgery residency program at Duke UniverMedical Center on sity indefinite probation after a June 2003 evaluation found numerous problems with Duke’s
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Members of the Class of 2008 sign the Community Standard after the convocation ceremony in theChapel Thursday.
Duke aims to foster integrity Paul Crowley THE CHRONICLE
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New Duke students filed out of the Chapel after President Richard Brodhead’s convocation address Thursday to sign thennames to large sheets of paper arranged around the lawn. These newly-minted Blue Devils were engaging in what Brodhead had called an act integral to becoming members of the University community. When they signed the Community Standard, members of the Class of 2008 became the second class at Duke to sign the pledge, which replaced the University’s Honor Code in Fall 2003. The Community Standard has been the ideal governing integrity at the University for the past year, and both administrators and students.involved with the
Standard are thermore, students who are Community pleased with the document’s found to be in violation of minor academic integrity offensprogress in altering Duke’s attitude toward integrity both inand outside the classroom. But these observers also hope the Standard will penetrate the community more as time passes —to the point where the Standard will be as much of a selling point for Duke as the basketball program, said Judith Ruderman, chair of the Academic Integrity Council and vice provost for academic and administrative services. The Standard differs in three major ways from the Honor Code, which governed integrity at the University from 1993 to 2003. It increases the emphasis on students reporting other students’ Standard violations. Fur-
es and are first-time offenders can now resolve their issues through faculty-student conferences, rather than through the University’s judicial system. The third departure is the Standard’s provision for the punishment of academic violations to be tailored to fit the severity and the circumstances of the offense. Despite widespread support among faculty and students for the Standard, last year’s honor violation data suggest that these measures achieved their goals to varying degrees; only 29 of the 44 students reported received a twosemester suspension, which had SEE STANDARD ON PAGE 7
tinue to train doctors while under probation, the diminished status may threaten its reputation as a top surgery school. In order for Duke to instruct surgeons, its program must earn the official stamp of approval because residents cannot take their certification exams unless they have completed an ACGME-accredited program. The department of surgery has already addressed the seven problems detailed in the ACGME report, and Dr. Danny Jacobs, chair of surgery, said he expects to request a re-evaluation later this year to upgrade the program’s status. The accreditation body regularly evaluates all residency programs every two to five years, and surgery’s next scheduledreview is in June 2006. Most of the citations Duke received are related to paperwork and record keeping; Duke officials emphasized that patient safety was never directly at risk. “I think as people have gotten busier and the demand for
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accreditation group's report, see page 6 documentation has increased, we didn’t keep pace with the amount of administrative support to make sure the amount of documentation is sufficient,” Jacobs said. ACGME first officially informed Duke in December 2003 that its surgery department would be subject to some kind of “adverse action.” Last year 6.5 percent of programs the ACGME scrutinized received some kind of warning, probation or suspension, said Julie Jacob, a spokesperson for ACGME. When Duke’s surgery program received its initial censure detailing 10 areas of non-compliance, it filed a report explaining the measures the Medical Center had already taken to alleviate the issues. Many of the corrections had been in planning stages before the review, but ACGME is required to evaluate schools based on the daily operations at the time of the assessment. Jacobs took over the surgery department from Dr. Robert Anderson in February 2003, and SEE SURGERY ON PAGE 6
Washington Duke Inn implements I.D, check by
Matt Sullivan THE CHRONICLE
While the Washington Duke Inn announced this summer that there would be “no changes” to its alcohol on points program, students looking for cocktails on a night out may now consider changing their social calendars. A new computer validation system identifying underage would-be-drinkers, might make those with fake I.D.’s think twice about the WaDuke. The Bull Durham Lounge and Fairview Restaurant, the four-star dining facilities of the University’s on-campus hotel and golf club, have begun enforcing identification checks via the Duke Card, largely in response to groups of under-
graduates who officials have said turned the lobby of the Washington Duke into too much of a college bar. “Fake I.D.’s are so prevalent here,” said Bobby Gorham, restaurant service manager at the Fairview. “It’s not a matter of the money thing. It’s a matter of being secure and following the law.” The new system still requires students to present government identification along with their Duke Cards, but bartenders and waiters will now utilize an option on their Duke points computers that flashes “Valid” or “Invalid” within seconds if a customer is 21 years old or not. SEE WADUKE ON PAGE 10
The Washington Duke Inn will usea new system to reduce underage drinking at its restaurant and bar.