How Michigan is relaying student competency to residency programs

A new study proposes that following the Match, medical school faculty should evaluate individual students and send residency program directors accurate, competency-based assessments for each graduate moving to the next level of physician training. This would ensure program directors have more detailed information on interns’ abilities and would help to identify areas where trainees need extra help, the University of Michigan Medical School authors said. Improving the system The current medical student performance evaluation (MSPE) allows medical schools to pass on information about a student’s general competency, but it doesn’t give a high level of detail and is sent nearly a year before a graduate starts his or her residency. Schools within the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium have been working on flexible, competency-based pathways for students in recent years, and a group at the University of Michigan—one of the 11 founding schools of the consortium—saw room for improvement. “For this movement to succeed, medical schools must take an active role in using competency-based assessment and reliably communicating the information they garner to residency programs as part of a standardized educational handover,” noted study authors from the University of Michigan. Members of a committee formed at the University of Michigan saw that much of the groundwork already existed to provide more detailed information. The Accreditation Coun...
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