CBME

Studying How to Build the Plane as You Fly It: Defining a Research Agenda for Competency-Based Board Eligibility

Thursday, September 26, 2024

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CT

Location: International Ballroom

Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP (she/her/hers)

Vice Chair of Education and Associate Professor of Surgery, Assistant Dean for GME
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

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Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd (he/him/his)

Tenured Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Wendy B. Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP (she/her/hers)

Associate Dean of Education
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, UMass Chan Lahey Regional Medical School
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts

Description: This session invites participants to examine how three competency-based assessment (CBA) early-adopter specialty boards have developed a research agenda to move toward competency-based eligibility for initial certification in a data-driven and evidence-based way. Participants will walk through the process for how surgery has crafted a research agenda to study nationwide implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities, and consider structures that have facilitated far-reaching research efforts in pediatrics and family medicine. Designed for ABMS specialty board members contemplating/engaged in CBA practices, plus education leaders and researchers interested in learning more about how to set up a research program around CBA, participants will consider how these principles apply to their own specialty and context.

Learning Objectives:

Describe different specialty boards’ approaches to understanding outcomes while implementing competency-based assessment.
Compare and contrast processes for data collection, synthesis, and analysis between different specialty boards and their respective approaches.
Discuss incorporation of workplace-based assessment data into decisions about competency-based board eligibility.