Since 1999, all OPTIs have been required to complete the OPTI Annual Report, which queries OPTIs on a series of operational issues. As the role of the OPTI has expanded to include academic sponsorship, so too does it become prudent to track OPTI responses and the impact that an OPTI's operational structure has on OGME program quality.
2 Such information will enable the AOA and the COPTI to provide additional detailed data on OPTI operations and the effect of these operations on program quality. In short, these data will continue to be used to answer the question, “Where are OPTIs going?”
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To answer this question, a subcommittee of COPTI members and other OPTI leaders are revising the OPTI Annual Report. This subcommittee is entrusted with creating fewer, more effective questions, which would provide meaningful measures of a successful OPTI. The subcommittee includes representatives from the COPTI and the OPTI Council of the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators, an OPTI advocacy group. New questions will be available for public comment and will be presented at the April 23, 2013, OPTI Workshop in Baltimore, Maryland, for feedback from OPTI leadership. The OPTI Annual Report will be modified by the subcommittee if necessary and receive final approval by the COPTI at its July 31, 2013, meeting. Each OPTI receives its annual report each August and must complete and return it to the AOA no later than October 1. The COPTI reviews the data each year at its fall meeting.