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colleagues laid out benefits of coproduction in medical education, noting: “. . . like the relationship between patients and providers, the relationship between learner and teacher requires the integrated expertise of each nested in the context of their system, community,
and society to optimize outcomes.”85 Coproduction is a bidirectional interaction between the learner and the training program. Coproduction fuels a cyclical, ongoing process. Fig. 3.7 highlights how incorporating coproduction as part of learning cycles along a trajectory can empower learners to view their own professional development as an ongoing, coproduced, iterative assessment process. Fig. 3.8 brings together the key concepts of professional development learning curves, programmatic assessment, and iterative learning cycles using a coproduction approach.
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FIGS. 3.7 and 3.8. Medical training during the undergraduate medical
education and graduate medical education years is an intensely developmental and iterative process. Each learner will experience different trajectories and must be an active partner with agency to coproduce their own educational experiences, including assessment. Fig.
3.7 displays key stages and questions in the coproduction cycle that must
be iteratively implemented as part of the longitudinal growth curve shown in Fig. 3.8.
Adapted from Englander and colleagues, Table 3.5 compares and contrasts traditional assessment approaches to one using coproduction. UME and GME programs can use this framework to improve their assessment programs and empower learners to strive
for better outcomes.85 However, medical education has struggled to create psychologically safe environments for learners. This is especially true for URiM learners who often must overcome stereotype threats and impostor syndrome. Partnering with learners to understand and attend to their lived experiences with current and past assessment activities will help programs improve assessment and confront and reduce bias in assessment. Program leaders will need to inform learners about coproduction, recognize and reward the learner role in coproduction, and create system changes to enable learners to receive more timely feedback and assessments through
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dashboards and rich information systems. Table 3.5 provides a summary of the key assessment roles of program leadership, faculty, and learners.
Table 3.5
Traditional Versus Coproduction Models of Assessment in Medical Education
System variable
Traditional/Hierarchical Coproduction
Logic dominant model
“Goods” model. Learner viewed as “product” where assessment is done primarily to ensure that the “product” meets minimal standards for release to the next stage of a career.
“Service” model. Learner viewed as health professional ultimately providing service to others. A service model requires a coproduction mindset because services are, by definition, always coproduced between two parties.
Primary driver
Teacher is primary assessor.
Learner(s)–teacher partnership designs, performs, and interprets assessments.
Focus Emphasis on
summative, retrospective assessments using rating scales that “quantify” the learner (e.g., end-of-rotation evaluations or grades).
Increased emphasis on narratively rich assessments that demonstrate developmental improvement in which learner contributes to their assessments. Assessments deemphasize overreliance on quantitative rating scales.
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Information “ownership”
Medical school, residency, or fellowship program owns and controls assessment information.
Learners own their assessment data that are transportable to new schools/programs. “Nothing about me without me.” The institution is a trusted custodian of assessment data and uses the assessment data in aggregate (with consent from the learner) to improve curriculum and assessment.
Relationship between professionals
Each assessor provides assessment in isolation and assessment data from multiple professionals is often lacking, of poor quality, or not incorporated into a learning plan for improvement. Assessments from other health professionals mostly used to identify problems and “outliers.”
Assessment data from multiple health professionals is integrated into a more holistic picture of abilities in all competencies using a developmental mindset.
Connections between aspects of the system
Abrupt transitions between phases of training (e.g., medical school to residency, to fellowship, to practice). No sharing (“feed­forward”) of assessment data is performed, encouraged, or supported.
Clear transitions with systematic “warm handoffs.” Sharing assessment data to support tailored learning for professional development across the continuum and variable time-based training based on competence and learner needs.
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Improvement model
Limited system perspective—blame and punishment model. Focused on “weeding” out “bad” or underperforming learners.
Continuous improvement of the assessment program based on input from all stakeholders to support professional development.
Adapted from Englander R, Holmboe E, Batalden P, et al. Coproducing health professions education: A prerequisite to coproducing health care services? Acad Med. 2020;95(7):1006–
1013. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003137.
In summary, a robust program of assessment must be coproduced and include multiple, integrated assessment methods and tools performed as a series of learning-assessment cycles conducted longitudinally over the course of the entire training program. A coproduced assessment program should be guided by informed group judgment and decision-making, and actively involve the learner embracing the philosophy of coproduction across the medical education continuum.
Putting It All Together: Implementation Science and Programmatic Assessment
While developing new assessment approaches and tools remains necessary, we already possess multiple, useful assessment approaches and tools. Therefore, going forward medical education should focus primarily on how to better use our existing wealth of assessment approaches. As program leaders evolve their assessment approaches, lessons and tools from implementation science can help. Ultimately, designing and running training programs and their system of assessment is not about a destination, but rather an ongoing developmental journey to continuously improve
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educational approaches (e.g., learning environment, curriculum, and assessment programs as all are integrated) as biological, medical, health system, and educational sciences evolve. By default, change and continuous improvement is a messy process. Medical education must embrace implementation science to support transformation in assessment, including the elimination of harmful bias.
Medical education programs are embedded within complex educational and clinical systems. The hallmark of complex systems are the interdependencies and interactions between all the “parts and components” with people (i.e., health professions faculty, program directors, program coordinators, and learners) being the most important components of the system, as noted earlier. When implementing a change, or new interventions in an assessment program, training program leadership must attend to key aspects of implementation.
Lessons and tools from implementation science can help educational leaders determine how to implement assessment programs and specific assessments. For example, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) can guide implementation and continuous quality improvement efforts in
assessment.86 The CFIR explicitly calls attention to five components: the conditions and characteristics of the outer setting (e.g., institutional social contexts); the inner setting (e.g., training program administrative support); the characteristics of the assessment approach (e.g., complexity in using the assessment, learner perceptions); the individuals involved (e.g., do they have agency and self-efficacy around the assessment; and the process (e.g., capacity of the program for change, presence of change agents and opinion leaders). Yaghmour and colleagues applied this framework to better understand the developmental change journey of residency programs implementing Milestones and uncovered at least three
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program-level stages.40 In 2017, all residencies at Queens University Canada implemented an outcomes-based, time-variable approach and shared their early implementation results using rapid cycle evaluations. They uncovered several expected and unexpected
challenges, a common phenomenon with major system changes.
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Both of these studies highlight how using implementation frameworks to guide the evaluation of large-scale initiatives can produce deeper insights into programmatic change. Appendix 3.2 provides an example of a CFIR template for implementing the revised Milestones 2.0 (see Chapter 1) for specialty training in the United States.
Conclusion
Medical education training programs already possess a wealth of assessment approaches and tools. Now we must commit to using these tools and approaches more effectively within programs of assessment (i.e., programmatic assessment) using systems thinking to continuously improve. There is much we can do now to improve assessment practices (Box 3.2). This requires creating educational systems that allow the development, implementation, and sustainment of assessment programs. Assessment must be a high priority and not treated as an adjunct or afterthought in an educational program. Ideally, the purpose of assessment aligns with learning (assessment drives learning and learning drives the right type of assessments). Unfortunately, that is still not the situation in the majority of health professions education programs. Assessment is too often designed to incentivize competition where the quality of the assessment is defined by how well it can distinguish (discriminate) performance among learners (ranking and normative mindset) instead of ensuring that all learners attain a high level of
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performance (criterion and mastery mindset). The uncomfortable reality of the ranking type of assessment system finds its origins in psychological testing that had and still has the primary purpose of telling people apart: normal from abnormal, suited for the position versus unsuitable for the position, et cetera. But in education the purpose is not to tell whether Jane is better than Jim but to ensure that Jane and Jim become the best health professional they can be. When our predominant conceptualization of the role of assessment in education is one of measurement, grading, selection, and discrimination, its value proposition conflicts with the primary value proposition of education. Programmatic assessment must be viewed, using a systems lens, as an intrinsic and inseparable component of education and therefore as inseparable from medical education’s core value proposition to improve health and healthcare.
Box 3.2.
A (Partial) List of Actions Medical Education Programs Can Do Now to Improve Assessment
1. Ensure the majority of assessments are developmentally designed and focused.
2. Use assessment data to investigate, understand, and address sources of bias in the assessment program.
a. Seek to understand the effects of program culture
and the institutional learning environment on learners’ professional development.
3. Develop and implement programmatic assessment. a. Emphasize workplace-based assessments for the purpose
of supporting learners’ professional development. b. Embrace narrative assessments. c. Use learning analytics to support learners’ professional
development and the continuous improvement of the
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assessment program.
4. Leverage existing technologies to improve assessments (e.g., natural language processing, smartphone apps, etc.).
5. Investigate, understand, and address sources of unwarranted variation in the assessment program.
6. Explicitly define the assessment roles of all faculty (physicians and other health professionals) and learners.
7. Invest in training of faculty and learners in assessment.
8. Leverage coproduction to support assessment practices and learners’ professional development.
9. Use translational and implementation science to build, revise, and improve assessment programs and practices.
10. Honestly assess and confront inertia in changing assessment practices.
Educational environments need to have the time and the resources and be designed so that learners and all faculty assessors have enough time working together to enable effective assessment and feedback to occur. This requires confronting the uncomfortable inertia that has persistently limited improvement and change in programmatic assessment, especially around issues of structural bias and racism. Change will require humility to recognize what is not working and concerted effort to address weaknesses and gaps within our assessment systems, including the regulatory components of professional assessment. Effective and efficient programmatic
assessment is within reach of all health professions education.
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We have strong assessment science to make a difference in the lives of our learners and patients through better assessment practices grounded in a developmental, coproduction mindset embedded in integrated, well-designed programs of assessment.
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank Dr. Lambert Schuwirth for his helpful review, suggestions, and edits.
Parts of this chapter were originally produced for a Macy Foundation white paper by E.S. Holmboe, N. Osman, C. Murphy, and J. Kogan.
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