Competency assessment and documentation help, all in one place
The ACGME requires residency program directors and coordinators to document and assess resident competence in six areas: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
How do you evaluate residents’ core competencies?
HCPro is proud to introduce A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies. This book and CD-ROM will be your survival guide to assessing and documenting the ACGME’s six core competencies.
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies provides you with:
- Background, best practices, and the latest information about competency evaluation
- Tips for assessing and documenting each competency
- Sample tools, forms, and resources for documenting competencies
- A practical training guide to help directors and coordinators measure residents' competence in each area
Your very own core competencies training resource
The standards set by the ACGME for the core competencies are raising the bar and changing graduate medical education.
This book compiles best practices and advice to help you teach, assess, and document the core competencies in medical education.
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies supplies administrators with a ‘one-stop-shop’ guide to core competency assessment. The book and CD-ROM set:
- Includes sample forms and tools for documenting competencies
- Explains strategies for documenting tough-to-assess competencies such as practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice
- Offers a practical explanation of the ACGME regulations and helps new administrators learn about the ACGME’s core competency regulations
- Contains a step-by-step guide to documentation and assessment
Who should read A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies?
Teaching hospital staff, residency program administrators, residency program directors, residency program coordinators, designated institution officials, graduate medical education committee members, medical staff professionals, department heads, and faculty development personnel.
About the authors
ELIZABETH RIDER, MSW, MD, FAAP, is director of programs for communications skills at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital; course director of Difficult Conversations in Healthcare Course, Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills at Children’s Hospital in Boston; and assistant professor of pediatric at Harvard Medical School. She holds a master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith College in North Hampton, MA. A former child and family therapist, she is board certified in both pediatrics and clinical social work and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She practices at Roslindale Pediatric Associates in Boston.
RUTH H. NAWOTNIAK, MS, CTAGME, is the cofounder and first president of The National Board for Certification of Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education (TAGME). She spearheaded the creation of TAGME to establish standards for the profession, acknowledge the expertise needed to successfully manage graduate medical education programs, and recognize those training program administrators who have achieved competence in all fields related to their profession. Nawotniak also serves as the residency program coordinator for the general surgery residency program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in Buffalo, NY.
GARY D. SMITH, Ed.D., is the administrative director of medical education at John Peter Smith Hospital and University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, TX. Smith has been involved in medical education for over 20 years and has extensive experience in the development, administration, and accreditation of teaching hospital and medical school programs.
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