Know if you'll graduate

The Progress screen grades every category against the ACGME-required minimum, with the national-average volume beside it as context. Categories you are behind on sort to the top; met ones collapse away. Toggle between the whole residency and the current year, open a category for a forecast, and edit any target your program sets differently.

By Christopher Cutler, MD, CA-1, anesthesiologyUpdated September 2026

Capnolog tracks two lines for every category, so “am I behind?” is a glance instead of a spreadsheet.

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Two targets per category
The ACGME-required minimum is the bar your progress is graded against. The national-average volume sits beside it as context, not as a second requirement. The Progress screen — from Settings, or the header on the Log tab — shows both for every category.
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Deficits surface first
Categories you're behind on sort to the top in red and amber, so you always see what to chase next. What's already met collapses out of the way.
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Cumulative or this year
Switch between your whole residency and the current CA-year to see your pace either way.
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Open a category to see the shape of it
Tapping a category shows both bars, a forecast of where the current pace lands you, and a button that starts a case in that category. The answer to “I am behind on this” is one tap from the number that told you.
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Correct a target that does not match your program
Settings → Personal & training → “Edit category targets” gives every category two number fields, a reset per field, and a reset for the lot. A value you change is badged as differing from the official ACGME minimum, so an edited target can never quietly pass for the published one.
Reset drops your override and the published figure comes back. Nothing is lost by trying it.
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Started mid-residency?
Import your starting totals from a prior ACGME export so your bars open where you actually are, not at zero.
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Moving to a fellowship?
A fellowship counts against its own published ACGME minimum table, not your residency one. Choose your fellowship in Settings and Progress switches to that table; your residency cases stay on the device either way.

Keep reading

ACGME required minimums and national averages by category
Category	ACGME min.	Nat’l avg.
Patients <12 years	100	159
— of which <3 years	20	68
— of which <3 months	5	11
Initial pain evaluation	20	69
Vaginal delivery	40	93
Cesarean section	20	57
Cardiac surgery (total)	20	—
— of which with CPB	10	42
— of which without CPB	10	15
Major-vessel procedures	20	53
Non-cardiac intrathoracic surgery	20	32
Intracerebral procedures (incl. endovascular)	—	41
— of which open cranium	20	35
Epidural anesthetics/catheters (peri-op)	40	118
Life-threatening pathology	20	4
Procedures w/ spinal anesthetics (incl. C-sections)	40	99
Procedures w/ peripheral nerve blocks	40	145

The required minimum is the ACGME floor. The national average is your program’s real graduation bar. Capnolog tracks both for every category — these numbers come straight from the app.

Counting is nested and correct — a single peds-under-3-months case credits every pediatric line it belongs to at once.