HCM Marketplace

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE

presented on April 14, 2005

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) requires your residency program to incorporate core competencies training into residents' education to ensure these practitioners have the tools they need to provide quality patient care.

Now that you've begun to comply with the ACGME and AOA requirements, are you ready for the next steps in implementation?

Step one: Residency program directors and faculty need to understand just what each competency requires.

Step two: Develop program-specific tools-beyond the ACGME's "Toolbox"-to effectively teach the competencies. Once your program introduces competency training, you must then assess residents' grasp of each essential skill.

Listen to"Core Competencies Challenge: Comply and Promote Quality Patient Care in Graduate Medical Education" and we'll show you how to take these crucial steps to build an effective and compliant competency training program.

More importantly.
This program will address the standards head-on by showing you how to use the ACGME Toolbox and how to redefine the connection between medical education and medical practice. But even more importantly, our experts will show you how to go beyond the standards from ACGME and AOA to increase patient-centered quality care.

Our experts will take you from theory to practice.
Listeners will walk away understanding how to:

• Create the connection between the competency-based educational movement—such as the ACGME and AOA requirements—and the quality movement in medical practice
• Implement curricular reforms required to move forward with the competency mandate
• Refocus evaluation efforts at the GME level to assure outcomes vs. simply focusing on accreditation standards compliance

Take a look at the program agenda:

• A clear explanation of the aim of ACGME and AOA competency requirements
• How to assign accountability for competency compliance
• Step-by-step strategies to teach competencies
• How to assess resident competency
• How to provide immediate and effective feedback to residents
• The relationship between the compliance and quality movement

This program is especially designed for:

• Residency directors
• Residency coordinators
• Department chairs
• Residency faculty
• Behavioral science faculty

Meet the speakers who will tackle competency requirements head-on!

Hershey S. Bell, MD, FAAFP, is clinical professor of family medicine and associate dean for faculty development and evaluation at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in Erie, PA. He received his medical degree at the University of Toronto and completed residency and fellowship training at Duke University. He has almost two decades of teaching experience at all levels of medical education. He has held the positions of residency director at Hunterdon Medical Center in New Jersey, division chief and vice-chair of family medicine at Duke University, and senior vice president and chief medical officer at Hamot Medical Center in Erie. His pioneering work on competency-based education in medical education has been widely recognized. Recently, the American Osteopathic Association acknowledged his work in the Report of the Core Competency Task Force who recommended national adoption of the "Bell Model of Competency-based Evaluation."

Martin Krepcho, Ph.D., is the Director of Behavioral Science at the Phoenix Baptist Family Medicine Residency Program. Formerly, he was the director of behavioral science at the University of Texas Southwestern family medicine residency program in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Krepcho designed and implemented a competency-based evaluation and promotion system for the family medicine residents. The competency-based system is an integration of the ACGME directives; faculty/resident identified learning needs, and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine initial work on competencies. Prior to his residency work, Dr. Krepcho published in the areas of formative and summative evaluation on grants funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services.

Erin Callahan (moderator) is a senior managing editor for HCPro's residency newsletter: Residency Program Alert.

PROGRAM MATERIALS:
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.

• Audioconferences

• Other Residency Products