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Five Strategies for Successful Assessment in Graduate Medical Education
Author(s) -
Barlow Patrick B.,
Smith Tiffany L.,
Skolits Gary
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world medical and health policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1948-4682
DOI - 10.1002/wmh3.84
Subject(s) - medical education , curriculum , process (computing) , key (lock) , competency assessment , graduate medical education , needs assessment , psychology , medicine , computer science , pedagogy , sociology , accreditation , social science , computer security , operating system
This discussion provides faculty, or anyone conducting their own assessment, with five key strategies for useful assessment in graduate medical education (GME) and the broader higher education environment with or without the benefit of pre‐existing learning objectives. Higher education faculty, including GME, are not trained to develop their own assessment strategies (Hutchings , 2010 ). Consequently, developing assessment “from the ground up” can be an arduous process, particularly without previous strategies in place. We introduce the strategies using a free‐standing evidence‐based medicine curriculum as a case. The five strategies are: (1) know your situation; (2) clarify your purpose; (3) use what you have; (4) fit the instrument to your purpose, not the other way around; and (5) get consistent and critical feedback. These five strategies should prove beneficial in making sure effective assessment data is gathered efficiently as medical education moves towards a competency‐based model .