Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment

ACGME HUB Course | July 18-August 15

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Course Overview

Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment is a 5-week virtual course that combines pre-recorded content that participants complete on their own and weekly 1.5-hour live sessions over Zoom. Pre-recorded content is usually 1-2.5 hours per week.

In collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME®), Michigan State University Graduate Medical Education Alliance proudly hosts the annual training course, "Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment." This esteemed program is delivered as an asynchronous virtual training supplemented by scheduled virtual meetings and discussion sessions. The course equips participants with essential strategies, resources, and tools to design effective assessment systems and implement best practices in medical education. 

This engaging and interactive course features presentations from leaders representing ACGME, Michigan State University, and the Graduate Medical Education Alliance.

Live Zoom Session Dates and Topics

  • July 18, 2025 from 3:30-5:00 pm EST
    • Topics: Competency-Based Medical Education, Milestones, Self-Regulated Learning, Individualized Learning Plans
  • July 25, 2025 from 3:30-5:00 pm EST
    • Topics: Assessment from Systems Perspective, Mitigating Assessment Biases 
  • August 1, 2025 from 3:30-5:00 pm EST
    • Topics: Getting the Most Out of Evaluations, Giving Effective Feedback 
  • August 8, 2025 from 12:00-5:00 pm EST
    • Topics: Direct Observation, Performance Dimension Training (PDT) 
    • Virtual Simulation Activity to practice direction observation, PDT, and giving feedback to simulated residents
  • August 15, 2025 from 3:30-5:00 pm EST
    • Topics: The Struggling Resident/Remediation, Clinical Competency Committee

Target Audience

The course is intended for residency and fellowship program directors, associate program directors, chairs and members of Clinical Competency Committees (CCCs), designated institutional officials, and faculty members with major responsibility for the assessment of residents/fellows.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to: 

  • Apply key principles of outcomes-based education in GME. 
  • Optimize the use of developmental assessment based on goals and principles of competency-based medical education. 
  • Understand key issues in rater cognition, as well as their implications for effective assessment. 
  • Select and implement appropriate tools to build an effective assessment program. 
  • Develop effective group process for assessment and CCCs. 
  • Improve approaches to use of multi-faceted longitudinal assessment data for professional development. 
  • Employ effective practices in work-based assessment. 
  • Use models to structure feedback conversations with learners. 
  • Recognize struggling learners and develop remediation strategies. 
  • Create a personal action plan and a program- or institution-specific improvement project for change.
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FAQs

The course is virtual and synchronous. This means there are recorded lectures that must be watched each week of the course, and the discussion of these recordings will happen virtually during a scheduled Zoom session with the entire class.

Only 1 missed synchronous Zoom session will be allowed to pass the course. Failure to comply will result in being removed from the course.

This course is designed over 5 weeks, meeting weekly on Zoom to complete group discussions and additional lectures.

Yes. As an ACGME Hub we have collaborated with ACGME to develop a curriculum focusing on building assessment skills of individual faculty members or others at the front lines of resident and fellow education. This course is taught by expert faculty members who previously attended the ACGME's Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course in Chicago.

Graduate Medical Education Alliance Members: There is a discount available for this course.

Non-members: There is early bird and regular pricing available.

Updated 5/14/2025