K.E. Hauer is associate dean for competency assessment and professional standards, and professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8812-4045 .
T.M. Lockspeiser is assistant dean of medical education-assessment, evaluation, and outcomes, and associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Acad Med. 2021 Feb 1;96(2):182-185. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003764.
Conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted clinical practice and all aspects of medical education. Yet the need to continue to train physicians to care for patients and communities is greater than ever. Medical educators are responding by adapting curricula in response to requirements for social distancing, changing availability of clinical learning opportunities, and limitations on testing center availability for examinations. These disruptions require a systems approach to ensure that learners achieve competence in preparation for advancement in training toward unsupervised practice. In this article, the authors assert that medical educators, obligated by current conditions to adapt educational experiences, should seize the opportunity presented by the pandemic to make needed changes in 3 areas aligned with competency-based medical education: focusing on outcomes, broadening the assessment toolbox, and improving the undergraduate medical education-to-graduate medical education (UME-to-GME) transition. Defined outcomes, as exemplified by entrustable professional activities, will enable curricular designers to shorten and adapt learning experiences by focusing on students' achievement of prespecified learning outcomes. Broadening the assessment toolbox entails capturing more and different assessment information about learners to provide a well-rounded view of their strengths and areas for growth in both traditional and novel settings, such as telehealth. Limitations on available data, such as licensing examination scores and clerkship grades, heighten the urgency to revise the system for the UME-to-GME transition by enhancing the quality and usability of information available to residency program directors. Educators should capitalize on the opportunity presented by altered conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic to make these needed changes to the educational system, to prepare physicians to provide health care and lead the health care system into the future.
由于 COVID-19 大流行导致的各种情况扰乱了临床实践和医学教育的各个方面。然而,培训医生照顾患者和社区的需求比以往任何时候都更加迫切。医学教育工作者正在通过调整课程来应对社交距离要求、临床学习机会的变化以及考试中心可用性的限制,以应对这些变化。这些干扰需要采用系统方法,以确保学习者在为接受监督下的实践培训而提升能力方面取得成功。在本文中,作者认为,医学教育工作者有义务根据当前的情况调整教育经验,应该抓住大流行带来的机会,在与基于能力的医学教育相一致的三个领域做出必要的改变:关注结果、拓宽评估工具包和改善从本科医学教育到住院医师医学教育(UME-to-GME)的过渡。明确的结果,例如可委托的专业活动,将使课程设计者能够通过关注学生实现预定学习成果的情况来缩短和调整学习经验。拓宽评估工具包需要获取更多不同的学习者评估信息,以便在传统和新颖的环境(如远程医疗)中全面了解他们的优势和成长领域。可用数据的限制,如执照考试成绩和实习成绩,凸显了修订 UME-to-GME 过渡系统的紧迫性,方法是提高居住项目主任可用信息的质量和可用性。教育工作者应该利用 COVID-19 大流行导致的条件变化带来的机会,对教育系统进行这些必要的改变,使医生能够为未来的医疗保健和领导医疗保健系统做好准备。