MAHEC ACGME Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment

Description

Assessment is essential to all of education, and graduate medical education is no exception. With the introduction of competency- and outcomes-based education nearly 15 years ago in the US, and now the ACGME's Next Accreditation System and the Milestones, the urgency for high quality graduate medical education programs to meet the needs of learners, programs, and the public has grown substantially. This 3 day course held at Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC, is designed to help participants build effective assessment programs for their residency or fellowship. Sessions are highly interactive and use multiple learning approaches, including simulation practice, peer consultations, and application exercises, to provide participants with methods and tools for effective assessment. The course also provides a roadmap for developing an assessment system to assist participants in implementing changes within their own institution. The course will be delivered in interactive workshops that include theory bursts covering essential assessment content mixed with small group application exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to practice direct observation and feedback skills in a simulation center.

Wednesday, September 18th, 2024

7:30-8:00	Registration and Breakfast
8:00-8:30	Welcome – Introductions, Program Goals, and Agenda
8:30-10:00	Setting the Stage: Introduction to CBME Systems of Assessment
10:00-10:15	Break & Snacks
10:15-11:30	Speaking the Same Language: Milestones, Competencies, EPAs
11:30-12:30	Lunch
12:30-2:30	Direct Observation
2:30-2:45	Break & Snacks
2:45-4:15	Providing Effective Feedback
4:15-4:30	Large Group Debrief and Prep for Tomorrow

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

7:30-8:00	Breakfast
8:00-8:15	Simulation Orientation
8:15-12:35	Direct Observation: SPs and Standardized Residents & Get Feedback on Your Feedback
12:35-1:30	Lunch
1:30-4:30	Bias in Assessment
4:30-4:45	Large Group Debrief and Prep for Tomorrow

Friday, September 20th, 2024

7:30-8:00	Breakfast
8:00-9:30	Clinical Competency Committees – Best Practice
9:30-9:45	Break
9:45-11:15	Individual Learning Plans
11:15-12:15	Troika Consults in Small Groups
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:00 – 4:00	Resident Remediation
4:00-4:30	Large Group Debrief – Takeaways

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Target Audience

The target audience is residency and fellowship program directors, associate program directors, chairs and members of Clinical Competency Committees (CCCs), and any faculty members with major responsibility for the assessment of residents/fellows.

Objectives

• Apply key principles of outcomes-based education in graduate medical education training programs
• Optimize the use of developmental assessment based on goals and principles of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME)
• Describe and apply key issues in rater cognition and their implications for effective assessment
• Build an effective assessment program by choosing and applying appropriate assessment tools
• Improve approaches to use of multi-faceted longitudinal assessment data for professional development
• Employ effective practices in work-based assessment
• Develop a personal action plan for change in their own residency or fellowship program

Faculty

• Stephanie A. Call, MD, MSPH
• Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE
• Nancy Kubiak, MD, FACP
• Kiran R. Sigmon, MD
• Courtney Sommer, MD
• Sandra Whitlock, MD
• Daniel E. Yoder, Jr., MD