Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires programs to engage annually in program evaluation and improvement.

Objective

We assessed the value of creating educational competency committees (ECCs) that use successful elements of 2 established processes-institutional special reviews and institutional oversight of annual program evaluations.

Methods

The ECCs used a template to review programs' annual program evaluations. Results were aggregated into an institutional dashboard. We calculated the costs, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value by comparing programs required to have a special review with those that had ACGME citations, requests for a progress report, or a data-prompted site visit. We assessed the value for prof

SUBMITTER: Andolsek KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936857 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature