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Direct Observation for Assessing Emergency Medicine Core Competencies: Interpersonal Skills
Author(s) -
Jouriles Nicholas J.,
Emerman Charles L.,
Cydulka Rita K.
Publication year - 2002
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 - 10.1197/aemj.9.11.1338
Subject(s) - core competency , graduate medical education , medicine , accreditation , medical education , interpersonal communication , mandate , social skills , curriculum , patient care , nursing , psychology , pedagogy , marketing , psychiatry , political science , law , business , social psychology
The American Board of Medical Specialties described six core competencies considered essential elements of medical practice: patient care, medical knowledge, practice‐based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems‐based practice. In response, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that all residency programs assess trainees for the newly defined core competencies. Despite the mandate for including these six competencies in residency training, neither a specific curriculum nor a method to assess the outlined objectives has been developed by the ACGME. Instead, it is up to individual residency programs to document how they plan to incorporate and assess the core competencies in their programs. This article describes the potential use of direct observation to assess resident performance in the interpersonal skills core competency.