Transforming Resident Assessment

Resident Surgical Assessment

Resident competence assessment: Best practices

Competence can be defined as “the ability to do something well.” The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. To prove competence, appropriate assessment methods are required. These methods should follow certain principles of assessment. Teaching ophthalmologist's time is valuable and limited and often poorly or uncompensated. Thus any assessment should...

Rethinking the Resident Assessment Protocols.

To the Editor: We are writing on behalf of interRAI, a 26country research network whose members developed the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument and the 18 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) for the Minimum Data Set, Version 2.0 (MDS V2.0). The recent article by Dosa et al. raises some interesting issues related to the RAPs, but it would be useful to take a somewhat broader view than...

Transforming a Competency Model to Assessment Items

The problem of comparing and matching different learners’ knowledge arises when assessment systems use a one-dimensional numerical value to represent “knowledge level”. Such assessment systems may measure inconsistently because they estimate this level differently and inadequately. The multi-dimensional competency model called COMpetence-Based learner knowledge for personalized Assessment (COMB...

Assessment and management of pain in a resident medical clinic.

management of a patient’S pain iS an important goal in outpatient primary care offices. Increasingly, panels such as The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) include pain assessments as a marker for quality of care. A physician’s ability to recognize pain and document pain management plans has important implications for accreditation and reimbursement, as well a...