Thoma Brent, Gottlieb Michael, Boysen-Osborn Megan, King Andrew, Quinn Antonia, Krzyzaniak Sara, Pineda Nicolas, Yarris Lalena M, Chan Teresa
Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center.
Cureus. 2017 May 4;9(5):e1224. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1224.
The evaluation of educational programs has become an expected part of medical education. At some point, all medical educators will need to critically evaluate the programs that they deliver. However, the evaluation of educational programs requires a very different skillset than teaching. In this article, we aim to identify and summarize key papers that would be helpful for faculty members interested in exploring program evaluation. In November of 2016, the 2015-2016 Academic life in emergency medicine (ALiEM) Faculty Incubator program highlighted key papers in a discussion of program evaluation. This list of papers was augmented with suggestions by guest experts and by an open call on Twitter. This resulted in a list of 30 papers on program evaluation. Our authorship group then engaged in a process akin to a Delphi study to build consensus on the most important papers about program evaluation for medical education faculty. We present our group's top five most highly rated papers on program evaluation. We also summarize these papers with respect to their relevance to junior medical education faculty members and faculty developers. Program evaluation is challenging. The described papers will be informative for junior faculty members as they aim to design literature-informed evaluations for their educational programs.
教育项目评估已成为医学教育中一项预期的内容。在某个阶段，所有医学教育工作者都需要严格评估他们所开展的项目。然而，教育项目评估所需的技能与教学所需的技能截然不同。在本文中，我们旨在识别并总结对有兴趣探索项目评估的教职员工有帮助的关键论文。2016年11月，2015 - 2016年度急诊医学学术生活（ALiEM）教员孵化项目在一次项目评估讨论中突出了关键论文。这份论文清单通过客座专家的建议以及在推特上的公开征集得到了扩充。这产生了一份30篇关于项目评估的论文清单。我们的作者团队随后进行了一个类似于德尔菲研究的过程，以就医学教育教职员工关于项目评估的最重要论文达成共识。我们展示我们团队在项目评估方面排名前五的最高评分论文。我们还就这些论文与初级医学教育教职员工和教员发展人员的相关性进行了总结。项目评估具有挑战性。所描述的论文对于初级教职员工在为其教育项目设计基于文献的评估时将具有参考价值。
