2025 HMSOM-ACGME Developing Competencies in Assessment
February 6, 2025 – February 8, 2025
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
123 Metro Blvd.
Nutley, NJ 07110
Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment - ACGME/Hackensack Meridian Hub 2025
Hackensack Meridian Health and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine are collaborating with the ACGME to sponsor a regional faculty development opportunity dedicated to the needs of academic physicians.
Competency and outcomes based medical education, and the ACGME’s accreditation model, including the Milestones, have created a growing and important need for effective assessment in both undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME) programs.
Hackensack Meridian Health has collaborated with the ACGME to offer a course designed for faculty members and both UME and GME leaders to learn best practices in direct observation and giving feedback to students, residents, and fellows. Based on the ACGME’s successful week-long course, this highly interactive three-day course uses multiple learning approaches, including hands-on simulations, to provide participants with approaches and tools for effective assessment.
Courses are taught by expert faculty members, many of whom have attended the ACGME’s Chicago based course. The course is ideal for program directors, faculty members, and designated institutional officials.
Where: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
When: February 6-8, 2025
Overview:
This 20-hour course is designed to enrich your work in assessment as an educational leader. The course uses both a system and programmatic lens to help you build the most effective assessment program for your learners from students to residents to fellows. The course will start with an overview of key concepts and principles in outcomes-based education. We will then explore key issues in assessment before focusing on specific assessment methods, and multi-faceted programmatic assessment approaches and tools.
Objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Describe core principles of competency-based medical evaluation (CBME)
- Design or envision a system of assessment for their home program
- Compare and contrast common terminology used in competency-based medical education (CBME)
- Explore a variety of assessment tools
- Choose assessment tools that are fit for purpose
- Assess their own assessment system, identify holes or needs, create plans to fill those holes
- Develop and practice direct observation skills for the purpose of improving accuracy in assessments
- Develop and practice effective frameworks for providing effective feedback to learners
- Practice creating remediation plans for residents who are not performing as expected with emphasis on the role of coaching
- Develop an action plan for change in their own residency or fellowship program
