Evaluations

OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENT TRAINING PROGRAM

1. Educate and train residents so that they may deliver compassionate, ethical and specialized care to patients with diseases of the skin, hair, nails and mucous membranes.
   
   
2. Impart to trainees a thoughtful and scholarly approach to normal skin physiology and to the diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous disease.
   
   
3. Educate trainees in the principles of clinical and basic research in normal and diseased skin.
   
   
4. Educate trainees in the art of teaching so that they may continue to impart their knowledge of dermatology to future trainees. (See Common Program Requirements - Appendix A)
   
   
5. Ensure the understanding and successful proficiency in the 6 clinical competencies
   
   
   • Patient care
   • Medical knowledge
   • Practice Based Learning and Improvement
   • Interpersonal and Communication Skills
   • Professionalism
   • Systems-Based Practice

CLINICAL COMPETENCIES

In 2001, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandated that all resident training programs provide learning opportunities and develop evaluation systems that support and assess resident learning in 6 competency domains:

• Patient Care: Must be able to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health
  
  
• Medical Knowledge: Must be able to demonstrate a growing fund of knowledge that permits compassionate, appropriate and effective treatment of health problems and the promotion of health
  
  
• Professionalism: Must demonstrate a commitment to carry out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles and sensitivity to a diverse patient population
  
  
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Must be able to demonstrate effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health care professionals that ultimately leads to effective and quality patient health care delivery
  
  
• Practice Based Learning and Improvement: Must be able to investigate and evaluate patient care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence and improve patient care practices
  
  
• System Based Practice: Must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and exhibit the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.

Through a series of evaluations tools (including but not limited to: one on one faculty-resident patient care discussions, grand rounds presentations, case log review, faculty evaluations, individual study and group discussions of the GME Today competency program, and mock board examinations) these 6 competencies will be evaluated for each resident, each year.

To measure each resident's progress annually, the American Board of Dermatology provides In-Training Board examinations for residents enrolled in accredited dermatology programs.

Residents are required to participate in these annual proctored exams which are consultant-graded, comparing percentile scores with those of residents at the same level of training in all the other training programs. The Board requires that surgery and special procedures logs be maintained and submitted annually by each resident, and that individual resident evaluations, tailored to each level of training, and sent to the Board office at the end of each training year.

These evaluations are based on the standards for certification established by the American Board of Dermatology and the standards for resident training established by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education. The faculty also provides quarterly evaluations on each resident's performance.