Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence

As Chief, Research, Milestone Development and Evaluation Officer of the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) and Senior Vice President for Quality Research and Academic Affairs at the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, he is on the cutting edge of assessment and evaluation requirements present and future. He is also Professor Adjunct of Medicine at Yale University. Prior to joining the ABIM in 2004, he was the was Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine, Director of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine, and Assistant Director for the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Prior to joining Yale in 2000, he served as division chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the evaluation of clinical competence. Dr. Holmobe also teaches a 2-3 day course at various hubs around the country which includes a comprehensive syllabus around practical assessment techniques. The first edition of the book was based on this successful intensive faculty development course, which itself was rigorously studied in randomized controlled trials, and now includes a copy of the text as part of the tuition. A Professor of Medicine and Pathology; Director, Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education (HPE); Director, Introduction to Clinical Reasoning Course at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Deputy Editor for Research for Academic Medicine, Dr. Durning is devoted to improving medical and health professions education and is considered a global leader in clinical reasoning. He is a prolific researcher and writer and is currently working on another book with Elsevier (recently Transmitted to Production) on how to carry out survey-based research in clinical education.

• 1. Assessment in the Era of Outcomes-Based Education2. Issues of Validity and Reliability for Assessments in Medical Education3. Programmatic Assessment Using Systems Thinking4. Evaluation Frameworks, Assessment Forms, and Rating Scales5. Direct Observation6. Standardized Patients7. Assessing Clinical Reasoning In Vitro (NonWorkplace Assessment)8. Assessing Clinical Reasoning in the Workplace9. Workplace-Based Assessment of Procedural Skills10. Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice11. Clinical Performance Measures and Practice Review12. Multisource Feedback13. Simulation Overview14. Feedback and Coaching15. Portfolios16. Group Process in Assessment17. A Programmatic Approach to Identifying and Supporting the Struggling Learner18. Program Evaluation

Review of the previous edition: "The book provides a state-of-the-art guide to competency-based outcomes assessment programs in the health professions. If followed, this guide will help any medical educator in the health professions identify better ways to implement assessment methods and measurement tools. What is also important about this book is that it provides conceptual models and popular approaches to assessment. The authors are practitioners who themselves have clearly struggled with improving and implementing effective measures of performance in the health professions and offer the best evidence from the literature as well as from their experience, resulting in this authoritative, excellent, practical guide to a compendium of assessment methods." --Reviewed by Klara K Papp, PhD (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) Doody's Score: 93, 4 Stars!