Resident dashboards: helping your clinical competency committee visualize trainees' key performance indicators.

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Graduate Medical Education
• Internal Medicine Residency Programs

Background:

• The Next Accreditation System requires robust resident assessment for milestone progression.
• Internal Medicine residency programs need effective methods for collecting and assessing resident performance data.
• Clinical Competency Committees (CCCs) require meaningful, reportable information for resident evaluations.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe the development and implementation of a resident dashboard in a large Internal Medicine residency program.
• To outline how quantitative and qualitative data were integrated for resident assessment.
• To demonstrate a practical approach for providing data to the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC).

Main Methods:

• Developed new end-of-rotation evaluations aligned with Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) milestones.
• Created a resident dashboard to aggregate milestone- and non-milestone-based quantitative and qualitative data.
• Compiled data from various sources including faculty, nurses, peers, staff, and patients.

Main Results:

• Dashboards were utilized by CCC members for semiannual resident evaluations.
• CCC members adjudicated data, adjusting evaluation scores as needed.
• Final milestone scores were recorded in the Accreditation Data System (ADS).

Conclusions:

• Resident assessment is complex, requiring both quantitative and qualitative data.
• The resident dashboard serves as a valuable tool for program leadership and the CCC.
• The dashboard facilitates semiannual evaluations and direct resident feedback.