Smirnova Alina, Barone Michael A, Zabar Sondra, Kalet Adina
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.
President and CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics, US.
Perspect Med Educ. 2025 Jan 9;14(1):1-8. doi: 10.5334/pme.1551. eCollection 2025.
In this introduction, the guest editors of the "Next Era in Assessment" special collection frame the invited papers by envisioning a next era in assessment of medical education, based on ideas developed during a summit that convened professional and educational leaders and scholars. The authors posit that the next era of assessment will focus unambiguously on serving patients and the health of society, reflect its sociocultural context, and support learners' longitudinal growth and development. As such, assessment will be characterized as transformational, development-oriented and socially accountable. The authors introduce the papers in this special collection, which represent elements of a roadmap towards the next era in assessment by exploring several foundational considerations that will make the next era successful. These include the equally important issues of (1) focusing on accountability, trust and power in assessment, (2) addressing implementation and contextualization of assessment systems, (3) optimizing the use of technology in assessment, (4) establishing infrastructure for data sharing and data storage, (5) developing a vocabulary around emerging sources of assessment data, and (6) reconceptualizing validity around patient care and learner equity. Attending to these priority areas will help leaders create authentic assessment systems that are responsive to learners' and society's needs, while reaping the full promise of competency-based medical education (CBME) as well as emerging data science and artificial intelligence technologies.
在本引言中，《评估的新时代》特刊的客座编辑们设想了医学教育评估的新时代，以此为基础对特邀论文进行了框架构建，该设想基于一次汇聚了专业和教育领域领导者及学者的峰会中所形成的理念。作者们认为，评估的新时代将明确聚焦于服务患者和社会健康，反映其社会文化背景，并支持学习者的纵向成长与发展。如此一来，评估将具有变革性、以发展为导向且对社会负责的特点。作者们介绍了本特刊中的论文，这些论文通过探讨几个能使新时代评估取得成功的基础考量因素，呈现了通往评估新时代路线图的要素。这些因素包括同样重要的以下问题：（1）关注评估中的问责制、信任和权力；（2）解决评估系统的实施和情境化问题；（3）优化评估中技术的使用；（4）建立数据共享和数据存储的基础设施；（5）围绕新兴评估数据源制定一套术语；（6）重新界定围绕患者护理和学习者公平性的效度概念。关注这些优先领域将有助于领导者创建能响应学习者和社会需求的真实评估系统，同时充分实现基于胜任力的医学教育（CBME）以及新兴数据科学和人工智能技术的全部潜力。
