Specialty milestones and the next accreditation system: an opportunity for the simulation community.

Title

Specialty milestones and the next accreditation system: an opportunity for the simulation community.

Creator

Beeson Michael S; Vozenilek John A

Publisher

Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Date

2014
2014-06

Description

The Accreditation for Graduate Medical Education has developed a new process of accreditation, the Next Accreditation System (NAS), which focuses on outcomes. A key component of the NAS is specialty milestones-specific behavior, attributes, or outcomes within the general competency domains. Milestones will mark a level of proficiency of a resident within a competency domain. Each specialty has developed its own set of milestones, with semiannual reporting to begin July 2013, for 7 specialties, and the rest in July 2014.Milestone assessment must be based on objective data. Each specialty will determine optimal methods of measuring milestones, based on ease, cost, validity, and reliability. The simulation community has focused many graduate medical education efforts at training and formative assessment. Milestone assessment represents an opportunity for simulation modalities to offer summative assessment of milestone proficiencies, adding to the potential methods that residency programs will likely use or adapt. This article discusses the NAS, milestone assessment, and the opportunity to the simulation community to become involved in this next stage of graduate medical education assessment.

Subject

*Clinical Competence; *Patient Simulation; Accreditation/*organization & administration/standards; Attitudes; Communication; Education; Graduate/*standards; Health Knowledge; Humans; Internship and Residency/*standards; Medical; Medicine/standards; Patient Care; Physician's Role; Practice

Rights

Article information provided for research and reference use only. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).

Pages

184–191

Issue

3

Volume

9

Citation

Beeson Michael S; Vozenilek John A, “Specialty milestones and the next accreditation system: an opportunity for the simulation community.,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed March 29, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/4417.