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  • Medical Education
  • Health Professions Education
  • Programmatic Assessment

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  • Physician and health care professional training is a lengthy, developmental process with variable learning paths.
  • Current medical education assessment often relies on single-time-point or proxy measures, inadequately addressing core competencies and developmental needs.
  • The transition to outcomes-based medical education is hindered by assessment approaches that overlook the developmental nature of training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the limitations of current programmatic assessment in medical education.
  • To advocate for a shift towards longitudinal, work-based assessments that capture developmental progression.
  • To emphasize the need for actionable data and learner partnership in assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of current assessment practices in medical education.
  • Review of the role and limitations of Milestones as a step towards longitudinal data.
  • Conceptual framework for rebalancing programmatic assessment.

Main Results:

  • Current assessments often use proxies and single-time-point evaluations, failing to fully capture essential competencies.
  • Milestones offer longitudinal data but are limited by the quality of underlying assessment data and group processes.
  • A significant rebalancing is needed to incorporate developmental, work-based assessments and patient data.

Conclusions:

  • Programmatic assessment must evolve to be longitudinally focused, providing comprehensive, actionable data for professional development.
  • Integrating work-based assessments, clinical performance, and patient experience data is crucial.
  • Collaborative, iterative assessment activities with learners are essential for effective training and improved patient care.