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the scale and we discourage their use moving forward. (An example of a discontinued older version is shown in Appendix 4.3.)
It is becoming more apparent that the choice of scale anchors is important. Box 4.1
describes various types of anchors for scales. These are not mutually exclusive, but when choosing a scale several considerations are paramount:
1. Returning to the earlier part of the chapter, the scale anchors must align with the purpose of the assessment and the framework chosen. “Quality” anchors such as superior, excellent, and unsatisfactory align poorly with developmental and synthetic frameworks. Even when using an analytic framework (see Fig. 4.2A) these type of anchors require the additional work of translation on the part of the rater. In essence, these types of scales represent a strange form of encryption that is often not accessible to the rater or the learners. Evaluation forms and scales, as noted earlier, signal what is important and should guide judgment. When additional, nebulous steps are added some translation is required and ineffective use of the scales results. Chapter 5 covers in greater detail issues around the frame of reference faculty use when providing ratings.
2. Scales have to be aligned with the assessment task and purpose.
3. Faculty development is absolutely crucial. Evaluation forms are not the measurement instrument; the rater is the true instrument and they need training to develop shared mental models around the evaluation framework, task, and purpose (see Chapter 5).
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4. Where possible, criterion-referenced scales and forms (such as RIME and the Milestones) are preferable.
Box 4.1
Various Types of Anchors for Scales, Both Preferred and Cautiously Usable
Rating scales: Types of anchors
A. Still in use but should be used cautiously based on assessment purpose:
•. Performance “quality”
•. E.g., unsatisfactory-satisfactory-superior
•. Frequency
•. Rarely–always
•. Normative
•. Level of comparative performance (e.g., peers; stage of training, etc.)
B. Preferred and recommended whenever possible:
•. Developmental
•. Entrustment/supervision
•. Narrative
These can overlap depending on purpose and construction of the scales. For example the Internal Medicine subcompetencies include a developmental scale (levels) where Level 4 is designated as “Ready for Unsupervised Practice” (entrustment/supervision) using narrative (Milestones as a format of a behaviorally anchored rating
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scale) to describe each level.
Appendix 4.2 shows an example of a BARS form for medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences containing detailed descriptors (incorporating “RIME” terms) at each level of performance on a 5-point scale. This is a better example of a construct­aligned scale.
The optimal range of a numeric scale is debated, but most experts recommend a scale contain between four and nine gradations depending on purpose, and these ranges have been retained in both Milestones and EPAs. A 9-point scale can be helpful when comparing a large population of trainees. The best example is the validity studies of the US Milestones that use a five-level developmental scale with transition zones between levels, resulting in a 9-point scale. As seen in Fig. 4.6, the Internal Medicine Milestone for taking a Medical History within the Patient Care Milestone, there are five levels of ability but the 9-point scale is retained. More importantly, the behavioral anchors in the BARS form provide verbal descriptions to be used by the teacher in classifying a resident’s ability along the entire scale.
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Fig. 4.6 Internal Medicine Milestone Patient Care 1: History. There are transitional zones between levels.
As stated before, the Milestones of most specialties use a 5­level system in which 1 = novice or advanced beginner and 5 = “aspirational” for a trainee (but might be expected of someone in practice). One specialty, general surgery, decided to label the first level “critical deficiencies” to signify significant deficiencies needing urgent intervention. In Fig.
4.6, the 5 levels show a level of progression that is similar to
the levels of entrustment in EPAs (Table 4.5). One very important caveat should be noted about the Milestones used in the United States. Milestones are designed to guide the judgment of clinical competency committees (CCCs) reviewing 4 to 6 months of resident performance and assessment data (discussed later in the chapter) and are not recommended for use as an evaluation form for short rotations. However, some GME programs have used the Milestones in their specialty as an “item bank” to construct more focused and meaningful assessment forms for specific curricular experiences. Much more work is needed in this area, but
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some early work suggests this may be a useful approach for programs.
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Table 4.7
Examples of Narrative Text for the Levels of the Patient Care
History Milestone for Internal Medicine
Patient Care 1: History
Overall intent: To competently interact with patients from diverse backgrounds and consistently use all available resources to obtain a comprehensive patient history
Milestones Examples
Level 1 Elicits
and reports a comprehensive history for common patient presentations, with guidance
• Obtains accurate, patient-centered history from a 30-year-old patient with a red swollen joint using open-ended and directed questions but without exploring clear underlying hypotheses
• Presents oral and written report that is organized but not focused on the chief
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Seeks data from secondary sources, with guidance
complaint
• Needs prompting to seek data from family members, ancillary staff members, outside pharmacy, outside labs, and databases for controlled substances
Level 2 Elicits
and concisely reports a hypothesis-driven patient history for common patient presentations
Independently obtains data from secondary sources
• Interviews a patient with no past medical history with a chief complaint of a red swollen joint, asking the patient about recent alcohol use, diet, trauma, sexual history, and other pertinent questions; reports history limited to pertinent positive and negative facts
• Respectfully uses the pronouns that a transgender patient identifies with and asks pertinent sexual orientation and activity questions to provide high­quality care in primary care clinic
• Without prompting, reviews and presents relevant data from previous medical records, including past labs and primary care physician notes, family members, ancillary staff members, outside pharmacy, outside labs, and databases for controlled substances
• Proactively reviews prescription history from available databases and calls the patient’s pharmacy for recent prescriptions that note allopurinol has not been refilled in months
Level 3 Elicits • Presents an 85-year-old with a history
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and concisely reports a hypothesis-driven patient history for complex patient presentations
Reconciles current data with secondary sources
of congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes with a chief complaint of several weeks of shortness of breath, asking about medication and dietary adherence; reports on the presence of angina or heart failure symptoms, recent upper respiratory infection, and allergen exposure
• Completes accurate medication reconciliation using multiple sources and clarifies history based on new information as it becomes available from caregivers who note recent weight gain
Level 4
Efficiently elicits and concisely reports a patient history, incorporating pertinent psychosocial and other determinants of health
Uses history and secondary data to guide the need for
(Note: Example uses same patient from Level 3)
• Discovers the patient has not filled recent prescriptions and determines it was due to an insurance lapse, and that the patient does not have reliable transportation to a pharmacy
• Determines patient has no reliable prescription plan coverage
• Determines patient recently had cardiac work-up at another hospital 1 month ago and does
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further diagnostic testing
not order echocardiogram based on previous results
Level 5
Efficiently and effectively tailors the history taking, including relevant historical subtleties, based on patient, family, and system needs
Models effective use of history to guide the need for further diagnostic testing
• Obtains a history from a patient presenting with macrocytosis, gout, and liver function test abnormalities, building trust to explore relevant history and learns that the patient consumes alcohol despite initial denial
• Takes a history from an injured patient and realizes that the boyfriend answers all the questions; identifies that the patient may be a victim of intimate partner violence based on nonverbal cues
• Obtains history of medication prescription plan and recognizes that patient may not have Medicare Part D or is in the coverage gap (i.e., “donut hole”)
• Evaluates a patient with a complaint of headache and illustrates to the more junior learners the elements of the history that preclude the need for additional testing
Purposes and Advantages of Evaluation Forms
Relative to other evaluation tools, evaluation forms can be
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relatively time efficient for the program or clerkship director. To supplement forms using Milestones, programs can modify or develop evaluation forms to suit specific needs. However, several additional caveats should be noted if you choose to develop a new evaluation form with a rating scale. First, the training program should assess, at a minimum, the reliability if not also the validity of the forms (see Chapter 2
). Second, development of “new” forms, independent of efforts to teach faculty how to effectively use the new forms, does not necessarily lead to more reliable or valid assessments of the resident.
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In fact, attention has shifted away from developing “better” forms because most performance appraisal experts believe that more focus is needed on how to train raters to use the form more effectively.
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This is why awareness of the evaluation framework discussed earlier is so important,
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and we will provide suggestions for
faculty training later in the chapter (also see Chapter 5
). We should emphasize that reliability can be increased by increasing the number of observers and/or the observations in a composite evaluation (see Chapters 2 and 5).
Evaluation forms, if used consistently by teachers, can provide a longitudinal “composite” assessment. Other tools, such as standardized patients, while very valuable, usually only provide a cross-sectional assessment at a single point in time. Evaluation forms have the potential to prompt and document judgments of individual faculty, based on multiple observations, conducted over time. The first task of rating forms should be to structure the observations of faculty so that their “findings” (analogous to a patient’s symptoms or vital signs) are focused to the goals of the
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program and are not idiosyncratic to the observer. Observations must then be interpreted and placed in an evidence-based framework being used by the program (e.g., RIME, Milestones, and/or EPAs), and a conclusion reached as to whether this learner is meeting the expectations or values of the program and profession; this interpretation of the observations is called evaluation. After the teacher has observed one or a few interactions with patients the evaluation yields information that may be used to provide feedback to the learner about their progress. However, conversion of the evaluations into a grade or an advancement decision is an administrative action rather than simply an educational one.14 This conversion of information into knowledge requires more certainty achieved through sufficient and reliable sampling and documentation of information across enough observers and important skills (e.g., information gathering, clinical reasoning, procedures) across a variety of clinical problems (trauma, infection, cardiac, etc.) in the settings in which the learner will practice (e.g., outpatient, emergency, inpatient). It also requires that the decision-making group (promotions committee or competency committee) understand the uses and limitations of the rating forms and assessment techniques that provide the material for a decision.
Evaluation forms can also help minimize the potential bias of the Hawthorne effect: when the process of measurement itself affects what is being measured by collecting observations and judgments over a period of time. However, the impact of the Hawthorne effect is actually quite modest and tends to minimize with habituations over time.
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