title: Outcome assessment in emergency medicine--a beginning: results of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) emergency medicine consensus workgroup on outcome assessment.
abstract: This article is designed to serve as a guide for emergency medicine (EM) educators seeking to comply with the measurement and reporting requirements for Phase 3 of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Outcome Project. A consensus workshop held during the 2006 Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) "Best Practices" conference identified specific measures for five of the six EM competencies--interpersonal communication skills, patient care, practice-based learning, professionalism, and systems-based practice (medical knowledge was excluded). The suggested measures described herein should allow for ease in data collection and applicability to multiple core competencies as program directors incorporate core competency outcome measurement into their EM residency training programs.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. hobgood@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: Cherri
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hobgood
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Promes
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Risa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moriarity
authors.forename: Deepi G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Goyal
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States