CBME Faculty Development Webinars
Look through past recordings of STFM's webinars focused on competency-based medical education.
Past Webinar Recordings
Improving Assessment Using Direct Observation
Recorded October 30, 2023
Note: This recording is no longer available.
90-minute workshop about strategies to improve the frequency and quality of direct observation of learners and to provide an overview of the ACGME's online faculty development toolkit, Improving Assessment Using Direct Observation. The free ACGME toolkit offers faculty development curricula that can be adapted to local needs and provides individual faculty members with techniques to become better educators.
Webinar Panel
Presenters: Jen Kogan, MD; Sandi Moutsios, MD
What You Need to Know About ACGME and ABFM Expectations for a Shift to Competency-Based Medical Education
Recorded December 8, 2023
While competency based medical education models have been around for more than half a century, many family medicine educators are not familiar with the tenets of this model. The ACGME has been increasing the emphasis on competency outcomes since the implementation of the Milestone project just over a decade ago. Additionally, the ABFM has instituted fifteen Core Outcomes to complement the Milestones and for which Family Medicine residency programs will be responsible for ensuring their graduating residents can be entrusted to perform as independent family physicians. The Core Competencies, Milestones, and Core Outcomes provide a framework to anchor family medicine residency education but do not provide specific tools for implementation.
This webinar introduces the basic tenets of CBME and describe how the Core Competencies, Milestones, and Core Outcomes fit in a CBME model. Presenters briefly explore some of the biggest challenges to implementing CBME and identify resources for successful implementation. Finally, they review the charge from the ABFM with regards to Core Outcomes for board eligibility.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Identify five tenets at the heart of CBME in family medicine education.
- Compare and contrast three differences in traditional GME education models and CBME models.
- Describe the ABFM timeline for attestation of Core Outcomes over the next 3 years.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: KrisEmily McCrory, MD, MS, Med Ed; Warren Newton, MD, MPH, president/CEO of ABFM
Resources
- Core Outcomes of Residency Training 2022 (Provisional) - Annals of Family Medicine
- Implementing Competency Based ABFM Board Eligibility - JABFM
- What Assessments Are Being Used in Family Medicine Residencies? - JABFM
- CBME is Here - The Time is Now - Annals of Family Medicine
- A Core Components Framework for Evaluating Implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education Programs - Academic Medicine
- Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment - ACGME
- In-Person CBME Faculty Development Opportunities - STFM
- Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit for Residency Programs - STFM
Reflections, Goals, & Objectives, Oh My! Best Practice for Creating Individualized Learning Plans
Recorded January 10, 2024
Historically, most programs implemented individual learning plans (ILPs) for residents needing remediation. With the ACGME requirements and ABFM expectations for competency-based medical education (CBME), there is a shift from limited learning plans for underperforming residents to more comprehensive plans for all residents – both to mitigate the stigma of having an ILP and to recognize that progression of learning is unique to each individual learner. While the former remediation plans were driven by faculty, ILPs are ultimately meant to be resident driven. This presentation will help participants understand the components of an ILP, how they differ from remediation plans, and pearls for getting started with their own residents.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- List components of personal/individual learning plans.
- Describe the difference between remediation plans and personal/individual learning plans.
- List three pearls to developing personal/individual learning plans.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: R. Aaron Lambert, MD; and Pamela Ann MacMillan, with support from Priyanka Tulshian, MD, MPH
Resources
- Individualized Learning Plan Template for Family Medicine Residents - STFM
- Keeping Up With Changing Time in Education: Fostering Lifelong Learning of Millennial Learners - Focus: Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
- A Core Components Framework for Evaluating Implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education - Academic Medicine
- In-Person CBME Faculty Development Opportunities - STFM
- Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit for Residency Programs - STFM
- Survey Link
What Your Residency Program Needs from You to Meet Requirements for Competency-Based Medical Education
Recorded February 7, 2024
Note: The recording for this webinar is no longer available. Slides can be found here.
Partnering with Programs to Create a Culture of Competency Based Medical Education:
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Articulate the "Why of CBME" in GME and especially Family Medicine
- Describe the new ACGME and ABFM CBME-related requirements
- Recommend resources to your programs
- Identify key ways you can help in the transition to CBME
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Deb Clements, MD; Linda Montgomery, MD; Sarah Cole, DO
Let's Talk About Entrustment
Recorded February 14, 2024
An important component of Core Outcomes is the process of attesting to them. Entrustment has been invoked several times but may be unfamiliar to many faculty. This webinar introduces the concept of entrustment as relates to CBME, describes how it has been used with Entrustable Professional Activities and now evolved to be used with Core Outcomes, and reviews entrustability scales and how they have been used successfully in GME by surgery and how they can be adapted to the broader scope of family medicine with concrete examples. Finally, presenters review the similarities and differences between a five-level entrustability scale and the five milestone levels to reinforce how these scales complement but do not replace each other.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Define entrustment as it relates to CBME.
- Describe the different levels of a 5-level entrustability scale.
- Compare and contrast entrustability scales and milestones levels.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: KrisEmily McCrory, MD, MS, Med Ed; Lauren Anderson, PhD
Resources
- ACGME Faculty Development Toolkit Video Library
- Entrustment Decision making in Clinical Training - Academic Medicine
- Reliability, Validity, and Feasibility of the Zwisch Scale for the Assessment of Intraoperative Performance - Journal of Surgical Education
- The Ottawa Surgical Competency Operating Room Evaluation (O-SCORE): A Tool To Assess Surgical Competence - Academic Medicine
- Entrustability Scales: Outlining Their Usefulness for Competency-Based Clinical Assessment - Academic Medicine
- In-Person CBME Faculty Development Opportunities - STFM
- Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit for Residency Programs - STFM
Assessment Tools for CBME and the Core Outcomes
Recorded April 10, 2024
Competency-based medical education (CBME) emphasizes frequent, low-stakes assessments incorporating direct observation. This shift in paradigm will require many programs to make adjustments to their assessment process. This webinar identifies several workplace-based assessment tools and strategies for direct observation. We introduce assessment tools from the STFM CBME Taskforce and discuss a proposed pilot for use of a mobile app. Our focus is on assessment methods already in use and new ones that can be readily implemented.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Identify at least two assessments tools already in place in their programs that could be used to address the new Core Outcomes
- Identify additional assessment tools from the STFM Taskforce that can be incorporated in their home programs
- Describe the benefits of workplace-based assessment and direct observation tools
- Update their assessment systems to include more workplace-based assessment using direct observation.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Olivia Rae Wright, MD; Velyn Wu, MD
Building CBME into Faculty Development
Recorded May 15, 2024
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Perform a gap analysis to identify focus areas for faculty development.
- List two best practices in creating faculty development focused on CBME principles and application.
- Create a longitudinal plan for implementing ongoing faculty development in this area.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Olivia Rae Wright, MD; Priyanka Tulshian, MD, MPH
Advisors and Coaches: The Evolving Role of Faculty and Resident Relationships
Recorded June 12, 2024
In meeting the objectives of CBME in helping develop Master Adaptive Learners (MAL), faculty will themselves continue to adapt beyond the traditional approaches of teaching, mentoring, and advising. Coaching is a powerful tool to help support the learner's education, professional development, and well-being. Faculty employing effective coaching skills will enhance residents in their ability to form individual learning plans and empower learners to become MALs. In this webinar, presenters explore the various roles faculty play and their evolution to a coaching approach while briefly touch-on opportunities for innovation, including ways to enhance coaching in residencies and equipping faculty with coaching skills.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the difference between advisors and coaches.
- List two main types of coaching in an academic setting.
- Describe the benefits of including non-core faculty in coaching roles.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Randolph Pearson, MD; Tonya L. Caylor, MD, PCC
Resources
- Individualized Learning Plans - STFM CBME Toolkit
- ACGME Remediation Toolkit
- Coaching in Graduate Medical Education: A Faculty Handbook
- The Effects of Coaching Pediatric Residents on Faculty Coaches' Relationships, Learning, and Professional Identity Formation - Acad Med
- Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit for Residency Programs - STFM
Individualized Learning and Resident Assessment: A CBME Orientation for Residents
Recorded June 27, 2024
This webinar for residents introduces concepts of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME). It provides an overview of residents’ role in developing their individualized learning plans and using assessment data and feedback to achieve the Core Outcomes of Family Medicine Residency Education to become board certified.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the basic components of competency-based medical education (CBME).
- Work toward the new outcomes they are expected to achieve in order to become certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).
- Participate in competency based assessment and individual learning plans.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Olivia Rae Wright, MD; Maggie Curran, MD
How to Have Reflective Feedback Conversations and Develop a Culture of Effective Feedback
Recorded July 10, 2024
Although many faculty have experience in feedback, the shift to CBME necessitates using feedback in more reflective, learner centered ways. With the shift to more frequent formative feedback, faculty need skills both in providing meaningful feedback and helping residents in using that feedback in their individual learning plans. This webinar focuses on the concept of reflective feedback conversations that are learner centered and build trust and respect between learners and teachers, identifies ways to build a culture of effective feedback by emphasizing two-way feedback channels and how faculty can role model receiving and incorporating feedback, and reviews ways to incorporate self-reflection and self-assessment based on available data and emphasizing the importance of direct observation as the basis of feedback.
Presenters introduce the “Getting Things Done” framework by David Allen as well as principles including Eisenhower matrices, “eat the frog”, and 4Ds of email management. They discuss how we have applied these principles to our own lives and made space for everyone to share their own techniques.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- List key aspects of reflective feedback conversations.
- Identify how faculty can role-model receiving and incorporating feedback.
- Describe how to guide residents in self-reflection and assessment based on evaluation data available to them.
Webinar Panel
Presenters: Grace Shih, MD, MAS; Claire Thomson, MD, MPH
Resources
- ARCH: A Guidance Model for Providing Effective Feedback to Learners - STFM Education Column
- Feedback Can Be Less Stressful: Medical Trainee Perceptions of Using the Prepare to ADAPT (Ask-Discuss-Ask-Plan Together) Framework - Cureus
- Using a Delphi Technique to Define a Feedback Culture in Graduate Medical Education - Family Medicine
- Twelve Tips to Promote a Feedback Culture with a Growth Mind-Set: Swinging the Feedback Pendulum from Recipes to Relationships - Medical Teacher
Tax Incentives for Fostering the Development of Master Adaptive Learners
Recorded August 14, 2024
Tenets of the Master Adaptive Learner (MAL) conceptual framework are important for developing skills of lifelong learning, but traditional training and education have not always emphasized a growth mindset and it can be difficult to move into that space. This webinar identifies key characteristics of the MAL and provides concrete examples of how to implement the MAL framework in programs. This webinar contracts MAL to more traditional models and reviews evidence for why MAL better aligns with attainment of competency in the Core Outcomes.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Understand the master adaptive learner (MAL) conceptual framework.
- Gain tools to incorporate the MAL framework into curricula.
- Understand the clinical learning environment in which MALs thrive.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Lou Edje, MD, MHPE; Velyn Wu, MD, MACM, CAQSM
Resources
- Fostering the Development of Master Adaptive Learners: A Conceptual Model to Guide Skill in Medical Education - Acad Med
- Fostering the Development of Master Adaptive Learners: A Conceptual Model to Guide Skill Acquisition in Medical Education - AcadMed
- Training Future Family Physicians to Become Master Adaptive Learners - Family Medicine
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- The Master Adaptive Learner by Cutrer et al
Using Electives Effectively to Help Residents Attain Competency in the Core Outcomes
Recorded September 18, 2024
Recent ACGME requirements have expanded the amount of elective time for resident education. This webinar describes the purpose of an elective, how electives should be selected incorporating individualized learning plans, and recommendations on how to develop a new elective experience. Time is allowed for a group discussion of best practices and challenges in incorporating electives to ensure residents attain competency in the core outcomes.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Define elective time. How is it different now than from the past?
- Design a process whereby individualized plans are incorporated into selecting elective experiences.
- Describe how elective times can be used proactively to create flexible learning opportunities for residents.
- Delineate the steps needed to create a new elective experience for your residents.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Lynne T. Bateson, MD; W. Fred Miser, MD, MA
Resources
- ACGME Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine
- Frequently Asked Questions: Family Medicine - ACGME
- Who to go to for What: The ABFM or the ACGME - Fam Med
- The Transformational Path Ahead: Competency-Based Medical Education in Family Medicine - Fam Med
- Competency-Based, Time-Variable Education in Health Professions: A Crossroads - Acad Med
- Implementing Competency Based ABFM Board Eligibility - J Am Board Fam Med
- A Core Components Framework for Evaluating Implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education Programs - Acad Med
- STFM CBME Toolkit
The Role of Resident Portfolios in Competency-Based Assessment
Recorded October 9, 2024
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Discover the benefits of a portfolio system and its significance with Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME).
- Demonstrate objective and subjective assessments that could be included in the portfolio.
- Discuss incorporation of portfolios and corresponding assessments into residency programs while implementing CBME.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Priyanka Tulshian, MD, MPH; R. Aaron Lambert, MD; Pamela Ann MacMillan
Resources
- The Portfolio Approach to Competency -based Assessment at the Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine - Acad Med
- Assessment Tools and Strategies for Competency-Based Medical Education - CBME Toolkit
- Outcomes Starter Pack - CBME Toolkit
- Faculty Development Delivered
- AFMRD-PD Toolbox
- STFM Competency-based Medical Education Collaborative (will need to login using your STFM account)
- STFM CBME Toolkit
Managing Assessment Burden in CBME
Recorded November 13, 2024
The challenge of adequate assessment in CBME has been an ongoing impediment to its implementation. Faculty are already feeling overwhelmed with myriad of responsibilities and asking to for them to assess more seems daunting. This webinar looks at available assessment strategies, including using what is already in place with adaption, reviewing possible mobile apps and other technology to allow for brief, in the moment assessments, and looking at what other systems (e.g. Canada) have incorporated.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Identify two strategies in address assessment burden.
- Evaluate current assessment tools they already use for applicability to CBME needs.
- Assess pros and cons of potential mobile apps in assessment.
Webinar Panel
Panelists: KrisEmily McCrory, MD, MS, Med Ed; Jeremy Crider, MD
Resources
- Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment - ACGME
- Analyzing the Administrative Burden of Competency Based Medical Education - Can Assoc Radiol
- Assessment Tools and Strategies for Competency-Based Medical Education - CBME Toolkit
- Improving Assessments Using Direct Observation Toolkit - ACGME
- Faculty Development Delivered
- STFM Competency-based Medical Education Collaborative (will need to login using your STFM account)
- STFM CBME Toolkit
ACGME, ABFM, and CBME: So Many Letters, So Little Time
Recorded November 24, 2024 by AFMA
The webinar objectives are to:
- Briefly review current ACGME Program Requirements for Family Medicine
- Discuss competency-based medical education
- Discuss strategies to address the Core Outcomes of Family Medicine Education
Webinar Panel
Panelists: Rae Wright, MD; Pamela MacMillan
The Power of Direct Observation: Answering Residents' Most-Asked Questions
Recorded January 15, 2025
This webinar for residents uses a combination of scenarios and resident- and faculty-led presentation to provide an overview of why programs are increasing the number of direct observations of resident clinical encounters and to answer resident questions about the changes in resident assessment. The content is based on responses to a resident survey and resultant focus group. The webinar provides an overview of the importance of direct observation in the context of competency based medical education and provides strategies for residents to more fully engage in their education.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the role direct observation plays in helping residents advance to independent practice.
- Use feedback and assessment data to tailor their education to their future practice.
Webinar Panel
Presenters: Maggie Curran, MD; Jenna Kay, MD
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