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GI societies provide tools to help program directors, fellows meet new competency requirements
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The Oversight Working Network (OWN), representing five gastroenterology and hepatology societies, has developed a series of “toolboxes” to help program directors and fellows enhance assessment of trainees and comply with new accreditation requirements, according to a press release.
The new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Internal Medicine Subspecialty Reporting Milestones requirements are a key part of the Next Accreditation System, an outcomes-based system for graduate medical education programs that took effect July 1 for gastroenterologists.
To help facilitate adherence to and completion of this semiannual reporting milestones requirement, toolboxes for 13 core tasks referred to in the project’s white paper as entrustable professional activities (EPA) have been created by the five societies participating in OWN. These include the AGA Institute, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Additional support came from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the GI Program Directors Caucus.
The EPAs define the core tasks of the GI/hepatology profession and are designed to help trainees identify goals and expectations from their programs and from the specialty and society as a whole. They are not intended as pedagogical mandates, but as a means to identify a core set of achievements for all GI fellows, according to the white paper.
“The GI societies must ensure that the needs of our trainees, program directors and educators are being met in ways that best help them prepare for the practice of gastroenterology and hepatology,” Suzanne Rose, MD, MSEd, professor of medicine, senior associate dean for education, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and one of the paper’s writers, said in the release. “We respect the autonomy of GI fellowship programs and offer the new tools to help educators and trainees supplement their current approach while being able to meet the new requirements in the Next Accreditation System.”
Each EPA toolbox has been made available on the OWN website, as well as in the journals of the participating societies.