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Wesley Y Naritoku1, C Bruce Alexander, Betsy D Bennett
1From the Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Dr Naritoku); the Department of Pathology, University of Alabama Birmingham (Dr Alexander); the American Board of Pathology, Tampa, Florida (Dr Bennett and Johnson); the Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (Dr Black-Schaffer); the Hematopathology Division, Joint Pathology Center, Silver Springs, Maryland, and Washington, DC (Dr Brissette); the Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond (Dr Grimes); the Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (Dr Hoffman); the Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock (Dr Hunt); the Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville (Dr Iezzoni); the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha (Dr Kozel); the Department of Pathology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina (Dr Mendoza); the Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (Dr Post); the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas (Dr Powell); the Department of Molecular Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, The Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Procop); the Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York (Dr Steinberg); and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois (Ms Thorsen and Dr Nestler).
New pathology milestones offer a national standard for evaluating resident competency. This system tracks trainee progress in key areas, improving graduate medical education outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Pathology Training
Background:
- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Outcomes Project aimed to enhance graduate medical education.
- Initial competency-based frameworks faced challenges in meeting stakeholder and public expectations by the mid-2000s.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a novel evaluation methodology for resident progress tracking.
- To implement developmental benchmarks, termed milestones, for a more refined assessment.
Main Methods:
- Development of pathology milestones involved reviewing existing specialty milestones, relevant literature, and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements.
- Pathology milestones define objective descriptors for assessing competency in patient care, procedural skills, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, communication, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
Main Results:
- The developed pathology milestones establish a standardized framework for resident evaluation.
- These milestones are designed to measure progressive development across core competencies.
Conclusions:
- Pathology milestones establish a national standard for assessing all residents in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited pathology programs.
- This initiative aims to standardize and improve the evaluation of resident performance in pathology.
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