Internal Medicine Residency Program
Evaluation
By definition, any educational process must include assessment. Without regular, structured, reliable evaluation of your abilities, we can’t assure that we are doing our job in providing you the skills and knowledge necessary for successful clinical practice. We seek to regularly assess your progress, advise you regarding areas of strength and areas for improvement, and direct you in ongoing efforts to continuously improve.
This is the foundation of practice-based learning. As such, it comprises a key element of life long learning. We seek to help you develop these habits and skills early during your career. As we do so, you will find that we glean input from a variety of sources. Evaluation by RNs, Medical Assistants, Medical Students, and your peers all form what business and industry refers to as a "360 Degree Assessment." We found this process gives greater depth and breadth to our evaluations.
As you may not realize, we assess much more than just your fund of knowledge. As outlined below, we embrace the ACGME’s vision of assessment in six general competencies. Each one is necessary, but not solely sufficient, to being a well-rounded internist. Accordingly, we strive to continuously assess your skills in all clinical arenas.
In an ever-growing shift towards training to competency, the ACGME has stated the following: “The residency program must require its residents to develop the competencies in the six areas below to the level expected in a new practitioner.” These competencies include:
- Patient Care
- Medical Knowledge
- Practice-Based Knowledge and Improvement
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Professionalism
- Systems-Based Practice
- More information regarding this can be found at the ACGME Web site at www.acgme.org/outcome.
We also value your assessment and evaluation of us. As we evaluate you, you evaluate us. Each end of rotation will bring an opportunity for you to evaluate your attending and rotation These are completely anonymous; the data is electronically entered into a database and forwarded back to the attending only once a minimum of three separate learner evaluations have accrued.
In addition, your biannual composite evaluation offers an opportunity to review your experiences over the past six months. Finally, we have each resident complete an anonymous survey on an annual basis. All results are averaged, with comments typed up and then randomly shuffled.
