Milestones Jennifer Gould, MD Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology

Our Program Accredited for 72 residents Over 80 faculty 8 Sections Multiple locations

Our Milestones 12 Sub-Competencies “Lumpers” Programs designate items to be measured for three of the sub-competencies – Basic/intermediate/advanced – Common/Uncommon

Our Milestones For the CCC (6) – Patient Care and Technical Skills (2) – Medical Knowledge (2) – Professionalism (1) – Interpersonal and Communication Skills (1 of 2)

Our Milestones For the “office” (6) – Systems-Based Practice (2) – Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (3) – Interpersonal and Communication Skills (1 of 2)

“Define your own” Each CCC member asked to designate items List compiled and condensed CCC members identified evaluation method

Rotation Specific Items Check lists Evaluation of observed procedures Procedure logs Imaging quizzes

Resident Development Early meetings with discussion – Transparency Asked them to fill out Milestones for themselves Gave them as much responsibility as possible

Clinical Competency Committee No requirements other than the common program requirements Our Program – I chair the committee – Asked for a minimum 1 member of each section – Meet at least every 6 months – communication for updates, etc.

Clinical Competency Committee Each member tasked with – Identifying the “define your own” items – Designing a reliable way of measuring those – Keeping records – Monitoring residents – Collecting information from colleagues

Meeting format Meeting date scheduled far in advance Everyone was expected to show up prepared – Data from evaluations

Meeting format Updates/announcements Who are we concerned about? – That “funny feeling” Discussion of the residents

Discussion by Milestone Do the math

In the background The “office” took care of 6 of the Milestones – ICS, PBLI, SBP – Grading quizzes – Collecting forms – Designating Milestone achievement

CCC meeting Prelim meeting June 2013 – Is our planned format going to work? – Establish baseline First official meeting Dec 2013

Successes Early discussions with the residents – Milestones are coming – Milestones are here – This is where you find your Milestone report Residents rating themselves on the Milestones Make them responsible – More stuff is getting turned in! – Comments indicate missing paperwork

Successes Wrote several quizzes and developed new evaluation methods Uploaded to their learning portfolios We survived the first official meeting!

Challenges Some residents were a little surprised – Our rotation evaluators need improvement New assessments Some assessments still to come… Faculty training - ? The questions that I can’t answer