Enhancing SelfAssessment: What can Technology Offer

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Enhancing Self-Assessment What can Technology
Offer?

• Bob Galbraith

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1. Give Useful Feedback - Broaden the Base

• Premise
• Proficiency and quality improvement are about
  more than just high stakes tests of competence
• Solutions
• Behaviors (e.g . 360 multi-source feedback)
• Technical/Clinical skills (e.g. SP, simulations)
• Ongoing learning (e.g. CME/CPD patient
  procedure logs)
• Management skills (e.g. prescribing, simulations)
• Process outcome measures (e.g. EHR)

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2. Make It More Relevant - Tailor to Individual
Practice Profile

• Premise
• Regardless of specialty, each physicians
  practice and learning needs are unique
• Solutions
• From existing repositories, aggregate the
  patients seen by diagnosis
• Billing data, Questionnaires, Chart Samples
  (EHR), Case logs
• Provide benchmarks where possible

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3. Enable Report-Out To Other Consumers

• Premise
• There are benefits in interactions with external
  organizations (licensing MOL certification and
  MOC professional organizations patients)
• Solutions
• Enable report-out, only with individuals consent
• One-off (licensing, disciplinary action)
  Repetitive, (MOC, MOL) Blanket (continuous
  assessment)
• Support mentoring, remediation as necessary