Launching the Next Steps to Improve Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow Performance Assessment: A Look Back to the Initial Toolkit of Assessment Methods.

ABSTRACT: Education leaders in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) have long acknowledged the challenge of fellow performance assessment and the need for HPM-specific fellow assessment tools. In 2010, and in alignment with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME's) directive toward competency-based medical education, the national HPM Competencies Workgroup curated a set of assessment tools, the HPM Toolkit of Assessment Methods. The Toolkit has been a resource for HPM fellowship directors in evolving practical, multifaceted fellow assessment strategies. Now, as American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine plans for a national workgroup in 2020 to define current HPM fellow assessment methods and to propose strategies to strengthen and standardize future assessment,

SUBMITTER: Morrison LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569474 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature