Milestones in emergency medicine

Medical student milestones in emergency medicine.

OBJECTIVES Medical education is a continuum from medical school through residency to unsupervised clinical practice. There has been a movement toward competency-based medical education prompted by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) using milestones to assess competence. While implementation of milestones for residents sets specific standards for transition to inter...

Supplemental Milestones for Emergency Medicine Residency Programs: A Validation Study

INTRODUCTION Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs may be 36 or 48 months in length. The Residency Review Committee for EM requires that 48-month programs provide educational justification for the additional 12 months. We developed additional milestones that EM training programs might use to assess outcomes in domains that meet this accreditation requirement. This study aims to assess for ...

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Milestones in Fellowship Training in Headache Medicine.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated a transition from competency-based assessment of resident progress to a “milestone-based” approach in 2012. After July 2014, neurology residency programs were required to follow milestones corresponding to all goals of training in the 6 areas of competency, with specific anchoring language for assessing progress. This eva...

Milestones in cardiovascular medicine: 10 or more?