Assessment of competency in anesthesiology.

Full Abstract

Assessment of competency in traditional graduate medical education has been based on observation of clinical care and classroom teaching. In anesthesiology, this has been relatively easy because of the high volume of care provided by residents under the direct observation of faculty in the operating room. With the movement to create accountability for graduate medical education, there is pressure to move toward assessment of competency. The Outcome Project of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has mandated that residency programs teach six core competencies, create reliable tools to assess learning of the competencies, and use the data for program improvement. General approaches to assessment and how these approaches fit into the context of anesthesiology are highly relevant for academic physicians.

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Author information

Author/s: Tetzlaff, John E (JE);

Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Center for Anesthesiology Education, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Comprehensive Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. tetzlaj@ccf.org

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Anesthesiology (Anesthesiology), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Apr; vol 106 (issue 4) : pp 812-25

Dates: Created 2007/04/06; Completed 2007/05/11;

PMID: 17413920, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Accreditation
Anesthesiology - education
Clinical Competence - standards
Communication

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