“You Want Me to Assess What?”

Problem Competency-based medical education (CBME) demands that residents be directly observed performing clinical tasks; however, many faculty lack assessment expertise, and some programs lack resources and faculty numbers to fulfill CBME’s mandate. To maximize limited faculty resources, the authors explored training and deploying faculty to assess residents in specialties outside their own. Approach In spring 2017, 10 MD and 2 PhD assessors at...