The 2014 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) residency and fellowship program requirements include the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program, which states that all physician trainees must assess their patients’ outcomes and use that data for further treatment planning.
This new GME requirement poses challenges for many training programs, as most programs do not have a structured, comprehensive data collection and monitoring tool for tracking patient outcomes. CHOIR fills this gap by letting each trainee track the outcomes of individual patients and compare them to data from the population of the United States in general.