Clinical Skills and Professionalism: Assessing Orthopaedic Residents with Unannounced Standardized Patients

Lead Author: David P. Taormina, MD
Submitted by: Kerensa Peterson, Northwestern University

Researchers at NYU-Langone Multi-center Academic University Hospital system embarked on a study that took place over a 2-year period. Forty-eight Unannounced Standardized Patient (USP) encounters were completed by residents in orthopaedics. Since the ACGME requires residency training programs to assess core competencies and track resident longitudinal development, they needed to be able to systematically and reliably assess residents using objective assessment tools.

Enter the USPs! The core competencies of communication and professionalism had proved more difficult to assess. In addition, faculty wanted to provide feedback to residents on these nontechnical skills which they deemed just as important as procedural skills.

Read the full article in the Journal of Surgical Education here.

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