Initial Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestone Comparisons in Plastic Surgery: Residents and Attendings
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1 BACKGROUND Graduate medical education has recently undergone a major archetypal shift toward competency-based evaluations of residents’ performance. The implementation of the milestone programs by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a core component of the shift, designed to ensure uniformity in measuring residency knowledge using a series of specialty-specific achievements. The objective of this study was to determine the correlation between residents’ self-evaluations and program directors’ assessments of their performance.
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