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Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors Council responds to the ACGME 2010 Proposed Standards

Journal of Perinatology volume 31, pages 296–297 (2011)Cite this article

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We enclose edited portions of a letter from the Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors (ONTPD) to Dr Nasca and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) regarding the release of the new ACGME Proposed Standards. We would like to share this with the Neonatology community at large. The complete original letter is available on the ONTPD website (http://www.aap.org/perinatal/ONTPDfiles/ONTPDindex.html)

August 5 2010

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  1. Member of the ONTPD Council,

    R M Ryan, L P Brion, S W Aucott, S E Juul, T A Parker, R D Savich, D Dukhovny, J J Cummings & S H Guttentag

  2. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

    R M Ryan

  3. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

    L P Brion

  4. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    S W Aucott

  5. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    S E Juul

  6. University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    T A Parker

  7. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    R D Savich

  8. Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    D Dukhovny

  9. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

    J J Cummings

  10. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    S H Guttentag

  11. New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

    E F LaGamma

  12. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    W A Price

  13. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    D E Campbell

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Ryan, R., Brion, L., Aucott, S. et al. Organization of Neonatal Training Program Directors Council responds to the ACGME 2010 Proposed Standards. J Perinatol 31, 296–297 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/jp.2010.160

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