Great News! The Academy of Educators is becoming an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Hub for the Developing Faculty Competencies & Assessment course. As such, in collaboration with the ACGME and their existing hubs, we will develop and deliver an annual 2.5-to-3-day course right here at WashU to help our faculty and program leaders with assessment, direct observation, provision of feedback, writing narrative assessments, and optimizing your Clerkship Competency Committee (CCC)/ Clinical Competency Committee (CCC)/ Competency Attainment Committee (CAC). The course will help our program leaders and front-line faculty enhance their observation, assessment, narrative, and feedback skills!
We are seeking 5-6 Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) faculty who are interested in learning more about assessment and helping the Academy to build our WUSM ACGME Hub course. Specifically, if you have current or desired knowledge/ skills/ expertise/ interest in assessment from any of the following: UME perspective, GME perspective, simulation, item-writing, workplace-based assessments, multi-source feedback, narrative assessment, PBLI, professionalism, clerkship competency committees, clinical competency committees, and/or competency attainment committees, then please consider this unique opportunity. We want to build a team that each brings specific interests and skills, we do not expect anyone to have interest/ expertise across ALL of those assessment areas. Individuals selected will be supported to attend the full 7-day ACGME Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment Course in Chicago, Illinois, OR potentially one of the existing Hub courses in Nashville. The selected individuals will also be expected to serve as faculty for the WUSM ACGME Hub assessment course as part of this commitment (ie participate/teach/co-teach specific sessions during the annual 3-day course).
The WUSM ACGME Hub course will be offered starting in 2025 to help WUSM participants design and make improvements in their own assessment programs and strive toward achieving the goals of competency-based medical education (CBME).
For those interested, please complete the application here by Friday, July 19, 2024. This includes uploading your CV, a letter of support from your department, division or program chair confirming that you will be given the time to both attend the course AND to participate as faculty in the course, and a letter of interest outlining how this opportunity will be useful to you in your current or future desired roles. Please review the application for the specific details requested.
All questions may be directed to academyofeducators@wustl.edu. We hope you are as excited as we are to bring this course to life!