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Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies using established residency training program assessment tools.
Am J Surg. 2004 Jul; 188(1):9-12.AJ

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Most existing residency evaluation tools were constructed to evaluate the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies.

METHODS

Before ACGME's six competency based assessment requirements for resident performance were developed, we created a residency evaluation tool with 5 domains important to successful surgical resident performance. Reliability was determined after 6 months of use. Factor analysis assessed whether the evaluation tool was a construct-valid measure of the ACGME competencies.

RESULTS

Three hundred forty-three evaluations for 36 surgical residents were tested. The original evaluation tool was highly reliable with an overall reliability of 0.97. Factor analysis defined 4 new combinations of questions analogous to 4 of the ACGME competencies: professionalism (reliability 0.95), patient care (reliability 0.93), medical knowledge (reliability 0.92), and communication (reliability 0.92). The new competency clusters were correlated with each other to a moderate degree.

CONCLUSIONS

Our locally developed tool demonstrated high reliability and construct validity for 4 of 6 ACGME competencies. The correlation between factors suggests overlap between competencies.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Brasel KJ
Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. kbrasel@mcw.edu
Bragg D
No affiliation info available
Simpson DE
No affiliation info available
Weigelt JA
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AccreditationClinical CompetenceEducational MeasurementFactor Analysis, StatisticalGeneral SurgeryHumansInternship and ResidencyReproducibility of ResultsUnited States

Pub Type(s)

Evaluation Study
Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

15219477

Citation

Brasel, Karen J., et al. "Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies Using Established Residency Training Program Assessment Tools." American Journal of Surgery, vol. 188, no. 1, 2004, pp. 9-12.
Brasel KJ, Bragg D, Simpson DE, et al. Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies using established residency training program assessment tools. Am J Surg. 2004;188(1):9-12.
Brasel, K. J., Bragg, D., Simpson, D. E., & Weigelt, J. A. (2004). Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies using established residency training program assessment tools. American Journal of Surgery, 188(1), 9-12.
Brasel KJ, et al. Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies Using Established Residency Training Program Assessment Tools. Am J Surg. 2004;188(1):9-12. PubMed PMID: 15219477.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies using established residency training program assessment tools. AU - Brasel,Karen J, AU - Bragg,Dawn, AU - Simpson,Deborah E, AU - Weigelt,John A, PY - 2003/08/26/received PY - 2003/11/11/revised PY - 2004/6/29/pubmed PY - 2004/7/24/medline PY - 2004/6/29/entrez SP - 9 EP - 12 JF - American journal of surgery JO - Am J Surg VL - 188 IS - 1 N2 - BACKGROUND: Most existing residency evaluation tools were constructed to evaluate the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies. METHODS: Before ACGME's six competency based assessment requirements for resident performance were developed, we created a residency evaluation tool with 5 domains important to successful surgical resident performance. Reliability was determined after 6 months of use. Factor analysis assessed whether the evaluation tool was a construct-valid measure of the ACGME competencies. RESULTS: Three hundred forty-three evaluations for 36 surgical residents were tested. The original evaluation tool was highly reliable with an overall reliability of 0.97. Factor analysis defined 4 new combinations of questions analogous to 4 of the ACGME competencies: professionalism (reliability 0.95), patient care (reliability 0.93), medical knowledge (reliability 0.92), and communication (reliability 0.92). The new competency clusters were correlated with each other to a moderate degree. CONCLUSIONS: Our locally developed tool demonstrated high reliability and construct validity for 4 of 6 ACGME competencies. The correlation between factors suggests overlap between competencies. SN - 0002-9610 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/15219477/Meeting_the_Accreditation_Council_for_Graduate_Medical_Education_competencies_using_established_residency_training_program_assessment_tools_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -