Influence of Clinical Competency Committee Review Process on Summative Resident Assessment Decisions

Abstract

This study explored the association between characteristics of individual CCC member reviews and their summative assessment decisions about residents. Further study is needed to gain deeper understanding of factors influencing CCC members' summative assessment decisions.

Beyond summative decision making: Illuminating the broader roles of competence committees

“…Competence committees (CCs) are a recent addition to postgraduate medical education. In the literature, these small groups are most often defined as summative decision‐making bodies, responsible for the review, collation and evaluation of trainee assessment data 1‐4 . To date, this body of literature has been organised around two themes: (a) developing best practices and forwarding practical advice for the assemblage and operation of CCs, 5‐9 and (b) understanding how the decision‐making work of the CC unfolds 1,10‐14 .…”

“…In the literature, these small groups are most often defined as summative decision‐making bodies, responsible for the review, collation and evaluation of trainee assessment data 1‐4 . To date, this body of literature has been organised around two themes: (a) developing best practices and forwarding practical advice for the assemblage and operation of CCs, 5‐9 and (b) understanding how the decision‐making work of the CC unfolds 1,10‐14 . The latter literature has a strong emphasis on summative decision making, explicating how these small groups collate and interpret aggregate assessment data to inform decisions about progression and entrustment 1,13,15,16 .…”

“…To date, this body of literature has been organised around two themes: (a) developing best practices and forwarding practical advice for the assemblage and operation of CCs, 5‐9 and (b) understanding how the decision‐making work of the CC unfolds 1,10‐14 . The latter literature has a strong emphasis on summative decision making, explicating how these small groups collate and interpret aggregate assessment data to inform decisions about progression and entrustment 1,13,15,16 . Given the high‐stakes nature of these summative decisions, it is unsurprising that they have been subject to significant scholarly interest.…”

Clerkship Grading Committees: the Impact of Group Decision-Making for Clerkship Grading

“…30 Early descriptions of CCCs highlight how members contemplate which data to use and weigh usefulness of that data. [31][32][33] Although clerkship committees differ from CCCs in terms of their data, learner characteristics, and purpose, similar lessons and challenges could emerge.…”

Launching the Next Steps to Improve Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow Performance Assessment: A Look Back to the Initial Toolkit of Assessment Methods

“…3 However, identifying assessment tools that provide actionable data across specialty-specific competencies to inform milestones reporting is an ongoing challenge. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) educators and fellowship training programs have been working for well over a decade to meet this challenge of identifying assessment tools that provide meaningful specialty-specific competency data over the concise 12-month timeframe of an HPM fellowship. HPM has been an official subspecialty of the American Board of Medical Specialties since 2006 with ACGME oversight and accreditation of HPM fellowships since 2008 ( Table 1).…”