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- Title
The Internal Medicine Reporting Milestones: Cross-sectional Description of Initial Implementation in U.S. Residency Programs.
- Authors
Hauer, Karen E.; Clauser, Jerome; Lipner, Rebecca S.; Holmboe, Eric S.; Caverzagie, Kelly; Hamstra, Stanley J.; Hood, Sarah; lobst, William; Warm, Eric; McDonald, Furman S.; Iobst, William
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>High-quality assessment of resident performance is needed to guide individual residents' development and ensure their preparedness to provide patient care. To facilitate this aim, reporting milestones are now required across all internal medicine (IM) residency programs.<bold>Objective: </bold>To describe initial milestone ratings for the population of IM residents by IM residency programs.<bold>Design: </bold>Cross-sectional study.<bold>Setting: </bold>IM residency programs.<bold>Participants: </bold>All IM residents whose residency program directors submitted milestone data at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year.<bold>Measurements: </bold>Ratings addressed 6 competencies and 22 subcompetencies. A rating of "not assessable" indicated insufficient information to evaluate the given subcompetency. Descriptive statistics were calculated to describe ratings across competencies and training years.<bold>Results: </bold>Data were available for all 21 774 U.S. IM residents from all 383 programs. Overall, 2889 residents (1621 in postgraduate year 1 [PGY-1], 902 in PGY-2, and 366 in PGY-3) had at least 1 subcompetency rated as not assessable. Summaries of average ratings by competency and training year showed higher ratings for PGY-3 residents in all competencies. Overall ratings for each of the 6 individual competencies showed that fewer than 1% of third-year residents were rated as "unsatisfactory" or "conditional on improvement." However, when subcompetency milestone ratings were used, 861 residents (12.8%) who successfully completed training had at least 1 competency with all corresponding subcompetencies graded below the threshold of "readiness for unsupervised practice."<bold>Limitation: </bold>Data were derived from a point in time in the first reporting period in which milestones were used.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The initial milestone-based evaluations of IM residents nationally suggest that documenting developmental progression of competency is possible over training years. Subcompetencies may identify areas in which residents might benefit from additional feedback and experience. Future work is needed to explore how milestones are used to support residents' development and enhance residency curricula.<bold>Primary Funding Source: </bold>None.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RATING of physicians; TRAINING of medical residents; MEDICAL practice; MEDICAL care; INTERNAL medicine; CLINICAL competence; OUTCOME-based education; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; INTERNSHIP programs; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016, Vol 165, Issue 5, p356
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/M15-2411