Faculty Development Workshop-ACGME: A Guide to Improving Assessments and Evaluations Sleep Medicine Milestones and Assessments

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In the video, Laura Edgar, the Executive Vice President for Milestones Development at ACGME, provides an introductory course on assessment in educational programs. She emphasizes the need for understanding and effectively using the assessment system. Edgar discusses various assessment tools, including direct observation, online training, multi-source feedback, and chart audits. She emphasizes the importance of proper training for using these tools and agreeing on what is being measured and how it is being used. Edgar also highlights the significance of involving residents or fellows as active participants in the assessment process to increase motivation and engagement.<br /><br />Edgar emphasizes the need for reliable, valid, and feasible assessment tools, suggesting a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. She encourages providing comments along with ratings to give meaning to the numbers and breaking down complex assessments into smaller parts. Edgar also recommends involving learners in self-assessment and using their feedback to create individualized learning plans. She explores strategies to make assessment tools more practical and efficient, considering the challenge of assessment overload.<br /><br />Furthermore, Edgar addresses the process of dismissing a learner, stressing the importance of consensus among faculty members and proper assessment and remediation plans. The video introduces harmonized milestones as a common framework for assessing competencies across different specialties. Edgar encourages program directors to align their assessment methods with the milestones using the provided supplemental guide, which offers examples and resources.<br /><br />The video concludes by mentioning upcoming changes to the milestones and inviting viewers to provide feedback through a survey to ensure their applicability to specific specialties.<br /><br />Credits: The video features Laura Edgar, the Executive Vice President for Milestones Development at ACGME, as the speaker.

Keywords

assessment

educational programs

assessment tools

direct observation

online training

multi-source feedback

chart audits

training

measurement

residents

fellows