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Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results
Few medical specialties engage in ongoing, organized data collection to assess how graduate medical education in their disciplines align with practice. Pathology educators, the American Board of Pathology, and major pathology organizations undertook an evidence-based, empirical assessment of what al...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289518790501 |
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author | Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Gross, David J. Crawford, James M. Robboy, Stanley J. Johnson, Kristen Cohen, Michael B. Austin, Melissa Sanfrancesco, Joseph Karcher, Donald S. Powell, Suzanne Z. Johnson, Rebecca L. |
author_facet | Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Gross, David J. Crawford, James M. Robboy, Stanley J. Johnson, Kristen Cohen, Michael B. Austin, Melissa Sanfrancesco, Joseph Karcher, Donald S. Powell, Suzanne Z. Johnson, Rebecca L. |
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description | Few medical specialties engage in ongoing, organized data collection to assess how graduate medical education in their disciplines align with practice. Pathology educators, the American Board of Pathology, and major pathology organizations undertook an evidence-based, empirical assessment of what all pathologists need to learn in categorical residency. Two challenges were known when we commenced and we encountered 2 others during the project; all were ultimately satisfactorily addressed. Initial challenges were (1) ensuring broad representation of the new-in-practice pathologist experience and (2) adjusting for the effect on this experience of subspecialty fellowship(s) occurring between residency and practice. Additional challenges were (3) needing to assess and quantify degree and extent of subspecialization in different practice settings and (4) measuring changing practice responsibilities with increasing time in practice. We instituted annual surveys of pathologists who are relatively new (<10 years) in practice and a survey of physician employers of new pathologists. The purpose of these surveys was to inform (1) the American Board of Pathology certification process, which needs to assess the most critical knowledge, judgment, and skills required by newly practicing pathologists, and (2) pathology graduate medical education training requirements, which need to be both efficient and effective in graduating competent practitioners. This article presents a survey methodology to evaluate alignment of graduate medical education training with the skills needed for new-in-practice physicians, illustrates an easily interpreted graphical format for assessing survey data, and provides high-level results showing consistency of findings between similar populations of respondents, and between new-in-practice physicians and physician-employers. |
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spelling | pubmed-61042182018-08-27 Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Gross, David J. Crawford, James M. Robboy, Stanley J. Johnson, Kristen Cohen, Michael B. Austin, Melissa Sanfrancesco, Joseph Karcher, Donald S. Powell, Suzanne Z. Johnson, Rebecca L. Acad Pathol Regular Article Few medical specialties engage in ongoing, organized data collection to assess how graduate medical education in their disciplines align with practice. Pathology educators, the American Board of Pathology, and major pathology organizations undertook an evidence-based, empirical assessment of what all pathologists need to learn in categorical residency. Two challenges were known when we commenced and we encountered 2 others during the project; all were ultimately satisfactorily addressed. Initial challenges were (1) ensuring broad representation of the new-in-practice pathologist experience and (2) adjusting for the effect on this experience of subspecialty fellowship(s) occurring between residency and practice. Additional challenges were (3) needing to assess and quantify degree and extent of subspecialization in different practice settings and (4) measuring changing practice responsibilities with increasing time in practice. We instituted annual surveys of pathologists who are relatively new (<10 years) in practice and a survey of physician employers of new pathologists. The purpose of these surveys was to inform (1) the American Board of Pathology certification process, which needs to assess the most critical knowledge, judgment, and skills required by newly practicing pathologists, and (2) pathology graduate medical education training requirements, which need to be both efficient and effective in graduating competent practitioners. This article presents a survey methodology to evaluate alignment of graduate medical education training with the skills needed for new-in-practice physicians, illustrates an easily interpreted graphical format for assessing survey data, and provides high-level results showing consistency of findings between similar populations of respondents, and between new-in-practice physicians and physician-employers. SAGE Publications 2018-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6104218/ /pubmed/30151423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289518790501 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Gross, David J. Crawford, James M. Robboy, Stanley J. Johnson, Kristen Cohen, Michael B. Austin, Melissa Sanfrancesco, Joseph Karcher, Donald S. Powell, Suzanne Z. Johnson, Rebecca L. Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title | Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title_full | Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title_fullStr | Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title_short | Evidence-Based Alignment of Pathology Residency With Practice: Methodology and General Consideration of Results |
title_sort | evidence-based alignment of pathology residency with practice: methodology and general consideration of results |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289518790501 |
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