Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Center for Obesity Medicine and Metabolic Performance, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Jul;27(7):1063-1067. doi: 10.1002/oby.22471.
Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative (OMEC) was formed to develop obesity-focused competencies and benchmarks that can be used by undergraduate and graduate medical education program directors. This article describes the developmental process used to create the competencies.
Fifteen professional organizations with an interest in obesity collaborated to form OMEC. Using the six Core Competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as domains and as a guiding framework, a total of 36 group members collaborated by in-person meetings, email exchange, and conference calls. An iterative process was used by each working subgroup to develop the competencies and assessment benchmarks. The initial work was subsequently externally reviewed by 19 professional organizations.
Thirty-two competencies were developed across the six domains. Each competency contains five descriptive measurement benchmarks for evaluator rating.
This set of OMEC obesity-focused competencies is the first evaluation tool developed to be used within undergraduate and graduate medical training programs for both formative and summative assessments. Routine and more robust assessment is expected to increase the competence of health care providers to assess, prevent, and treat obesity. In addition to dissemination, the competencies and benchmarks will need to undergo evaluation for further validity and practicality.
肥胖医学教育合作组织(OMEC)的成立旨在制定以肥胖为重点的能力和基准,供本科和研究生医学教育项目主任使用。本文介绍了创建这些能力的发展过程。
15 个对肥胖问题有兴趣的专业组织合作成立了 OMEC。使用研究生医学教育认证委员会的六个核心能力作为领域,并作为指导框架,共有 36 名小组成员通过面对面会议、电子邮件交流和电话会议进行合作。每个工作组使用迭代过程来制定能力和评估基准。最初的工作随后由 19 个专业组织进行了外部审查。
在六个领域中制定了 32 项能力。每个能力都包含五个用于评估者评分的描述性测量基准。
这组以 OMEC 为重点的肥胖能力是第一个在本科和研究生医学培训计划中开发的评估工具,用于形成性和总结性评估。预计常规和更强大的评估将提高医疗保健提供者评估、预防和治疗肥胖的能力。除了传播,还需要对这些能力和基准进行评估,以进一步验证其有效性和实用性。