A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education 2019

A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education is organized by Harvard Macy Institute and will be held from Mar 17 - 22, 2019 at Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is all health care professions faculty and educators, program planners and administrators, and individuals involved in designing curriculum assessment and evaluation to inform continuous quality improvement.All disciplines and professions. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 38.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Description :
The Harvard Macy Institute’s A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education is designed to encourage participants to apply systems thinking in designing assessment programs to support the continuous quality improvement of students/trainees, faculty, and curricula at their academic health science institutions. The program incorporates multiple pedagogical methods, including interactive presentations, case discussions, small group journal clubs, institutional planning groups, selectives (focused mini-sessions/workshops on assessment tools and approaches), and consultations with faculty experts. During this intensive 6-day program, educators and administrators from diverse health science disciplines will be introduced to key concepts from system theory, best practices in educational assessment, and mini-workshops focused on specific assessment approaches. Throughout the program, participants will also have an opportunity to apply systems principles in case discussions depicting problematic assessment situations and to plan an assessment/evaluation design to implement at their home institution.

Conference Objectives are :
• Assess the educational components of participants home institution from a systems perspective
• Identify the primary functions of individual educational components of their (sub) system.
• Identify the essential processes that need to occur at the interfaces between/among components within the educational system to add value to the quality of graduates.
• Outline the communications pathways that currently exist within the educational (sub) system.
• Examine the quality of participants institution's communication pathways, specifically for :
? The flow of multiple sources of performance data to individuals/groups (hubs) best positioned to interpret assessment information in context.
? The existence of direct feedback pathways to individuals/groups empowered to make corrections and adjustments.
• Design and implement a comprehensive systems-based assessment program to evaluate learner institution's performance in promoting a primary educational goal.