Measuring the Core Competencies

WEBCAST ON CD

presented on July 17, 2007

The ACGME requires you to assess and document the core competencies. The Joint Commission and ABMS require you to incorporate the competencies into reappointment and maintenance of certification.

Do you, your GME colleagues, faculty, and residents have the right tools for compliance?

Learn from the best practices adopted by residency programs to document these requirements, including hard-to-measure competencies such as practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice.

Measuring the Core Competencies: Tools for compliance with ACGME, ABMS and Joint Commission standards will show you exactly what you need to design evaluation forms to document the competencies-efficiently and effectively.

There are several sample evaluation forms available, but most are cumbersome, long, and difficult to navigate, including a lot of information that you simply don't need. During this program, you will learn from industry experts not only what you need to document, but how to document it, in simple and clear steps.

Discover how to bridge the gap between competency-based education and residency competency evaluation, with the essential tools presented in this Webcast:

• Framework for planning curricula
• Method for designing evaluation forms based on measurable objectives
• The Matrix as a curriculum design tool and a means of evaluating patient care

PROGRAM AGENDA

1. Leveraging publicly reported metrics of quality
   1. Phase III of the ACGME outcome project
   1. Resident core competencies
   2. Progress made by the ACGME
   2. How The Joint Commission and ABMS use the competencies for reappointment and maintenance of certification
2. Changes in competency measurement
1. Shift from individual to system measurement
2. Translating knowledge, skills, and attitudes to patient care
3. How to embed competencies in the daily care of patients
4. Designing competency evaluation tools
1. Formative tools
   1. Rotations
   2. Learning sessions
2. Summative tools
   1. Practicing competency independently
   2. Using the healthcare matrix
5. Live Q&A

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this Webcast, participants will be able to:

1. Define quality of care and the metrics for assessing quality
2. Link Phase III of ACGME Outcomes Project to quality of care in resident training
3. Develop a roadmap that begins with knowledge and skills needed for a specialty and ends with evaluation of competencies
4. Discuss a tool that facilitates the translation and integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to patient care

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Doris Quinn, PhD, assistant professor, division of medical education, director of improvement education at the Center for Clinical Improvement, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Quinn has been involved in process improvement since 1987, when she started as a quality coach for an HCA hospital. She has experience in many facets of health care including management, emergency and acute care, public health, continuing education, and four years as a healthcare provider and program developer in Papua, New Guinea. Her doctorate is in policy development and program evaluation from Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy with a specialization in formative evaluation. 

John Bingham, MHA, is currently the director of the Center for Clinical Improvement at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. His responsibilities include oversight of Vanderbilt’s quality and patient safety programs throughout the medical center. This includes coordination of quality improvement initiatives across the organization, teaching and mentoring senior leaders in the science of quality improvement, assisting the medical school in integrating quality improvement into the residency and medical school curriculum, as well as linking the ACGME core competencies to outcomes of care.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Residency program directors, residency program coordinators, GME committee members, designated institution officials, program coordinators, medical staff professionals, physicians

PROGRAM MATERIALS

You will receive presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all of your peers at your location.

Purchase a CD of the program and listen when you can. It's the perfect training tool for new staff or a refresher for veteran staff.

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