The assessment of individual cognitive expertise and clinical competency: a research agenda.
There is a large push to utilize evidence-based practices in medical education. At the same time, credentialing bodies are evaluating the use of simulation technologies to assess the competency and safety of its practitioners. At the 2008 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on "The Science of Simulation in Healthcare," our breakout session critically evaluated several issues important to the use of simulation in emergency physician (EP) assessment. In this article, we discuss five topics felt to be most critical to simulation-based assessment (SBA). We then offer more specific research questions that would help to define and implement a SBA program in emergency medicine (EM).
Spillane
Linda
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA. Linda_spillane@urmc.rochester.edu
Hayden
Emily
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Fernandez
Rosemarie
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Adler
Mark
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Beeson
Michael
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Goyal
Deepi
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Smith-Coggins
Rebecca
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Boulet
John
J
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