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The Assessment of Individual Cognitive Expertise and Clinical Competency: A Research Agenda
Author(s) -
Spillane Linda,
Hayden Emily,
Fernandez Rosemarie,
Adler Mark,
Beeson Michael,
Goyal Deepi,
SmithCoggins Rebecca,
Boulet John
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00271.x
Subject(s) - credentialing , medicine , session (web analytics) , breakout , medical education , health care , competency assessment , cognition , engineering ethics , computer science , world wide web , economics , finance , engineering , economic growth , psychiatry
There is a large push to utilize evidence‐based practices in medical education. At the same time, credentialing bodies are evaluating the use of simulation technologies to assess the competency and safety of its practitioners. At the 2008 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on “The Science of Simulation in Healthcare,” our breakout session critically evaluated several issues important to the use of simulation in emergency physician (EP) assessment. In this article, we discuss five topics felt to be most critical to simulation‐based assessment (SBA). We then offer more specific research questions that would help to define and implement a SBA program in emergency medicine (EM).