Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones
It has been a challenge to assess communication and professional values Milestones in emergency medicine (EM) residents using standardized methods, as mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This paper outlines an innovative method of assessing these Milestones...
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| description | It has been a challenge to assess communication and professional values Milestones in emergency medicine (EM) residents using standardized methods, as mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This paper outlines an innovative method of assessing these Milestones using an established instructional method. EM faculty mapped the communication and professional values Milestones to an existing communication and interpersonal skills scale. We identified six communication-focused scenarios: death notification; informed consent; medical non-compliance; medical error; treatment refusal; and advanced directives. In a pilot, 18 EM residents completed these six standardized patient (SP) encounters. Our experience suggests SP encounters can support standardized direct observation of residents’ achievement of ACGME Milestones. Further effort can be made to create a tailored, behaviorally-anchored tool that uses the Milestones as the conceptual framework. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-208a183d50a542039cc154e4532f66b62022-12-21T23:02:52ZengeScholarship Publishing, University of CaliforniaWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine1936-90182018-10-0119610.5811/westjem.2018.8.37204wjem-19-1019Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values MilestonesSamreen Vora0Matt Lineberry1Valerie Ann Dobiesz2Children’s Minnesota, Department of Simulation, Minneapolis, MinnesotaUniversity of Kansas Medical Center and Health System, Zamierowski Institute for Experiential Learning, Kansas City, KansasBrigham & Women’s Hospital, STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Harvard Medical School, MassachusettsIt has been a challenge to assess communication and professional values Milestones in emergency medicine (EM) residents using standardized methods, as mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This paper outlines an innovative method of assessing these Milestones using an established instructional method. EM faculty mapped the communication and professional values Milestones to an existing communication and interpersonal skills scale. We identified six communication-focused scenarios: death notification; informed consent; medical non-compliance; medical error; treatment refusal; and advanced directives. In a pilot, 18 EM residents completed these six standardized patient (SP) encounters. Our experience suggests SP encounters can support standardized direct observation of residents’ achievement of ACGME Milestones. Further effort can be made to create a tailored, behaviorally-anchored tool that uses the Milestones as the conceptual framework.https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w65q2hk |
| spellingShingle | Samreen Vora Matt Lineberry Valerie Ann Dobiesz Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
| title | Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones |
| title_full | Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones |
| title_fullStr | Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones |
| title_full_unstemmed | Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones |
| title_short | Standardized Patients to Assess Resident Interpersonal Communication Skills and Professional Values Milestones |
| title_sort | standardized patients to assess resident interpersonal communication skills and professional values milestones |
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