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Assigning Responsibility for Direct Observation
Early in training, direct observation should be used to identify learners who have outlier performance. Program directors and faculty should “frontload” observation as part of learners’ baseline needs assessment. This is especially important when learners transition to new roles and responsibilities (i.e., July in the United States and Canada, which is the start of the academic year). Early observation can identify learners who need additional support, coaching, and remediation. Just four observations can detect outlier
performance.77 Over time, the focus of direct observation can shift to assessment and feedback for ongoing skill development. Most importantly, learners should be evaluated multiple times, in multiple contexts, across multiple evaluators, and longitudinally over time. Although rater training can improve the quality of assessments, the best validity evidence occurs when there is broad sampling of skills.
At the programmatic level, it is helpful to identify how the responsibility for direct observation snapshots can be shared. Consider adopting a “divide and conquer” approach. Parse out what skills will be observed and assessed on what rotations. For example, faculty attending on the geriatric service might be responsible for observing the geriatric functional assessment. Faculty in the intensive care unit might be responsible for assessing breaking bad news and goals of care discussions. Outpatient preceptors could be responsible for assessing agenda setting and the musculoskeletal exam. Consider asking core faculty to identify the skills that should be prioritized for direct
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observation in their specialty. Including core faculty in this way promotes buy-in to WBA because faculty then observe skills that they believe are important. As previously discussed, observations should be aligned with or inform milestones or EPAs.
Program directors should decide who is responsible for initiating observation snapshots: learners or faculty. There are pros and cons to each approach. Placing the responsibility for direct observation on faculty emphasizes that direct observation is valued by the program. However, learners may then feel that direct observation is happening “to them,” not “for them” or “with them.” Placing the responsibility on learners can give learners control and ownership of their skill development. However, learners may become frustrated when faculty do not observe them when requested. Ideally faculty and learners should take mutual responsibility and ownership of the process. That is, faculty initiate direct observation and learners also ask to be observed when they
need feedback to further develop a clinical skill.
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Tracking Observations
Programs should create a plan to monitor and track whether observation is happening. Online evaluation systems facilitate tracking and allow data to be aggregated by learner and evaluator. If observations are still recorded on paper, a process to tally observations is needed. A simple strategy is posting a piece of paper in the rounding or precepting room that lists all learners, the minimum number of snapshots required for each learner, and a place for faculty to initial and date each time they have done an observation. Smartphone apps or forms linked to QR codes can also track observations.
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One example is the System for Improving and Measuring Procedural Learning (SIMPL) app that is designed for observation of surgical procedures using an entrustment type scale.
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This tool has a significant amount of research behind it and is currently being widely piloted in the United States. The ACGME also hosts the Direct Observation of Clinical Care (DOCC) app.
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Key Messages About Faculty Development and Implementation
Direct observation/WBA, which has always been important in medical education, is a key assessment approach in competency-based education. Direct observation of clinical skills followed by feedback is necessary for deliberate practice and for high-quality supervision. Because there are multiple threats to frequent, high-quality, valid assessments, programs need to invest in faculty development to maximize the effectiveness of direct observation. Faculty development should utilize rater training techniques that help faculty develop a shared mental model of clinical skills that is aligned with high-quality patient-centered care. To improve direct observation frequency, faculty development should help faculty identify observation snapshots that are meaningful for the learner and could improve patient care quality. Programs need to discuss the importance of direct observation and feedback with learners. Finally, faculty development programs should include longitudinal training and practice since direct observation, assessment, and feedback are complex skills that require ongoing practice.
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Annotated Bibliography
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2. Gingerich A, Kogan J, Yeates P, Govaerts M, Holmboe E. Seeing the ‘black box’ differently: assessor cognition from three research perspectives. Med Educ. 2014 Nov;48(11):1055-
1068. doi:10.1111/medu.12546. This perspective piece from an international group of researchers presents key findings in assessor cognition research focused on WBA. The piece explores different perspectives for variability in assessment judgments. Three prevailing approaches to assessor cognition research are reviewed: assessor as trainable, assessor as fallible, and assessor as meaningfully idiosyncratic. The implications for assessor
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training/faculty development are addressed.
3. Kogan JR, Conforti L, Bernabeo E, Iobst W, Holmboe E. Opening the black box of clinical skills assessment via observation: a conceptual model. Med Educ. 2011 Oct;45(10):1048–1060. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.04025.x. This is a qualitative study using a grounded theory approach that was designed to create a conceptual framework identifying the factors impacting faculty’s judgments and ratings of residents after direct observation with patients. Participants were 44 internal medicine faculty outpatient preceptors from 16 internal medicine residency programs in the United States. Four factors were identified that explained variability of faculty’s ratings of residents: variable frames of reference, high levels of inference, variable approaches to translating observations to numerical ratings, and institutional/cultural factors. This article summarizes the findings in a conceptual model that describes factors influencing the variability of observations and judgment during workplace-based assessment.
4. Kogan JR, Dine CJ, Conforti LN, Holmboe ES. Can rater training improve the quality and accuracy of workplace-based assessment narrative comments and entrustment ratings? A randomized controlled trial. Acad Med. 2023 Feb 1;98(2):237-247. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000004819. This is a
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multiinstitution, single blind RCT of a rater training intervention using the techniques of performance dimension training, frame of reference training, and spaced learning. The purpose of this study was to determine whether rater training could improve WBA narrative comment quality and accuracy. A secondary aim was to assess impact on entrustment rating accuracy. The quality and specificity of narrative comments improved with rater training; the effect was mitigated by inappropriate stringency. Training improved accuracy of prospective entrustment­supervision ratings but the effect was more limited.
5. Kogan JR, Hatala R, Hauer KE, Holmboe E. Guidelines: the do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of direct observation of clinical skills in medical education. Perspect Med Educ. 2017 Oct;6(5):286-305. doi:10.1007/s40037-017-0376-7. This evidence-informed guideline outlines approaches faculty, programs, and learners can take to improve the frequency and quality of direct observation. The article includes factors that undermine WBA and areas for future research.
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Pract. 2011 Mar;16(1):131-142. doi:10.1007/s10459-010-9235-6. This is a systematic review that describes the feasibility, reliability, validity, and educational effect of workplace-based assessment instruments and describes validity evidence of the mini-CEX. The review also highlights the lack of research on educational effects of direct observation tools.
7. Ten Cate O, Carraccio C, Damodaran A, et al. Entrustment decision making: extending Miller’s pyramid. Acad Med. 2021 Feb 1;96(2):199-204. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003800. In this perspective the authors discuss how assessing is important in competency-based medical education and discuss adding “trusted” to the apex of Miller’s pyramid.
8. Ten Cate O, Schwartz A, Chen HC. Assessing trainees and making entrustment decisions: on the nature and use of entrustment-supervision scales. Acad Med. 2020 Nov;95(11):1662-1669. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003427. In this perspective the authors describe entrustment scales and use of entrustment as a component of WBA. The authors describe the distinction between ad hoc entrustment decisions and summative entrustment decisions. The authors discuss prospective and retrospective entrustment-supervision scales.
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