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    "pk": 8923,
    "title": "Emergency Medicine Residents Consistently Rate Themselves Higher than Attending Assessments on ACGME Milestones",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n In 2012 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced the Next Accreditation System (NAS), which implemented milestones to assess the competency of residents and fellows. While attending evaluation and feedback is crucial for resident development, perhaps equally important is a resident’s self-assessment. If a resident does not accurately self-assess, clinical and professional progress may be compromised. The objective of our study was to compare emergency medicine (EM) resident milestone evaluation by EM faculty with the same resident’s self-assessment. \nMethods:\n This is an observational, cross-sectional study that was performed at an academic, four-year EM residency program. Twenty-five randomly chosen residents completed milestone self-assessment using eight ACGME sub-competencies deemed by residency leadership as representative of core EM principles. These residents were also evaluated by 20 faculty members. The milestone levels were evaluated on a nine-point scale. We calculated the average difference between resident self-ratings and faculty ratings, and used sample t-tests to determine statistical significance of the difference in scores.\nResults:\n Eighteen residents evaluated themselves. Each resident was assessed by an average of 16 attendings (min=10, max=20). Residents gave themselves statistically significant higher milestone ratings than attendings did for each sub-competency examined (p<0.0001).\nConclusion:\n Residents over-estimated their abilities in every sub-competency assessed. This underscores the importance of feedback and assessment transparency. More attention needs to be paid to methods by which residency leadership can make residents’ self-perception of their clinical ability more congruent with that of their teachers and evaluators. The major limitation of our study is small sample size of both residents and attendings.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Emergency Medicine Milestones, Resident Education, Resident Assessment , Resident self-assessment"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Educational Research and Practice",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z389720",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Katja",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goldflam",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jessica",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bod",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Della- Giustina",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tsyrulnik",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2015-04-29T22:38:22Z",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-29T22:38:22Z",
    "date_published": "2015-11-12T08:00:00Z",
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}