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Volume 25 (3)
Volume 25, Issue 3, Summer 2005
J Contin Educ Health Prof 2005; 25(3):168-173
INNOVATIONS
Continuing Medical Education Reform For Competency-Based Education And Assessment
David L. Nahrwold, MD
A b s t r a c t
The development of competency-based education and evaluation for residents and practicing physicians by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), respectively, includes the competency of practice-based learning and improvement. Efforts to implement this and the other competencies have been a powerful stimulus for continuing medical education (CME) reform, the goal of which is to improve the outcomes of care. The ABMS member boards and their counterpart specialty societies, members of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), have formed dyads to set standards and provide education to that end.Focused on the patient, the report of the Conjoint Committee on Continuing Medical Education contains the recommendations necessary to deliver competency-based continuing education to physicians. To implement them will be a major challenge. The CME community must consider the need to provide CME across the major health professions to address the fact that most care is delivered within systems composed of many health professionals. The use of microsystems as a model for the delivery, study, and validation of this interdisciplinary CME holds great promise.
Lessons for Practice
- The focus on CME reform stems from the requirement for practice-based learning and improvement, 1 of the 6 ACGME-ABMS competencies
- The assumption that CME reform will improve the outcomes of health care needs to be tested
- Physicians should receive credit for learning experiences
- Participants in health care microsystems should engage in some aspects of CME as a unit
Key Words: Reform; Competencies; Credit; Microsystems; Medical Education; Continuing; Licensure; Assessment
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