title: The development of the emergency medicine milestones.
abstract: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has outlined its "Next Accreditation System" (NAS) that will focus on resident and residency outcome measurements. Emergency medicine (EM) is one of seven specialties that will implement the NAS beginning July 2013. All other specialties will follow in July 2014. A key component of the NAS is the development of assessable milestones, which are explicit accomplishments or behaviors that occur during the process of residency education. Milestones describe competencies more specifically and identify specialty-specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors (KSABs) that can be used as outcome measures within the general competencies. The ACGME and the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) convened an EM milestone working group to develop the EM milestones. This article describes the development, use within the NAS, and challenges of the EM milestones.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, OH, USA. michael.beeson@akrongeneral.org
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Beeson
authors.forename: Wallace A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Theodore A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Christopher
authors.forename: Jonathan W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Heidt
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Lynne E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Susan B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Promes
authors.forename: Kevin G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Rodgers
authors.forename: Philip H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Shayne
authors.forename: Susan R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Swing
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States