Improving Faculty Competence in Assessment and Feedback in Graduate Medical Education: ACGME/Texas Hub Interactive Workshop (JS2703D)

Dallas, TX US
March 4, 2027 to March 6, 2027

The ACGME/Texas Hub Interactive Workshop is a highly interactive three-day course that focuses on advancing faculty competence in competency-based medical education (CBME) through the development and implementation of robust assessment programs aligned with ACGME Milestones. Participants will engage in hands-on workshops designed to strengthen skills in direct observation, milestones and entrustment, feedback, clinical performance measures, multi-source feedback, workplace-based assessment, and managing residents in difficulty. Emphasizing a systems-based approach, the course equips faculty with practical strategies to build comprehensive, multi-faceted assessment programs that support both formative and summative evaluation. Collaboratively offered by UT Southwestern Medical School, Dell Medical School at UT Austin, UT Health San Antonio, the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, and the ACGME.

Target Audience

This course is designed for Physician and APP program directors, associate program directors, chairs, Clinical Competency Committee members, designated institutional officials, and other faculty responsible for resident and fellow assessment.

Learning Objectives

  1. Apply key principles of outcome-based education in supervising residents in graduate medical education training programs.
  2. Employ effective practices in work-based assessment.
  3. Develop a personal action plan for change in assessment practices in your own residency or fellowship program and among faculty
  4. Describe the use of developmental assessment based on goals and principles of competency-based medical education.
  5. Explain and apply key issues in rater cognition and their implications for effective assessment.
  6. Build an effective assessment program by choosing and implementing appropriate assessment tools.
  7. Describe effective processes for assessment during meetings of clinical competency committees.
  8. Improve approaches to the use of multi-faceted longitudinal assessment data for professional development.

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 18.00 AMA
  • 18.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/01/2026
Course expires: 
03/06/2028
Event starts: 
03/04/2027 - 8:00am CST
Event ends: 
03/06/2027 - 2:00pm CST
Cost:
$575.00
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Agenda Overview

Day

Focus

Highlights

Thursday, March 4
8am- 5pm

Foundations of Assessment

Course kickoff

• Milestones, competencies, and EPAs

• Principles of effective assessment

• Clinical reasoning

• Professional identity

• Professionalism

• Evening reception

Friday, March 5
8am to 5pm

Practice, Observe & Coach

Learner remediation

• Direct observation strategies

• Interactive observation and feedback practice

• Rotating hands-on sessions

• Facilitated debrief

Saturday, March 6
8am to 1pm

Strengthen Your Program

Clinical Competency Committee optimization

• Effective feedback

• Practical takeaways

• Next steps and action planning

UT Southwestern Medical Center
2001 Inwood Road
West campus building 3- WCB3 9th floor Auditorium (9.406)
Dallas, TX 75390
United States

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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Physician
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas designates this continuing education activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity. 

Non-Physician
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center certifies that non-physicians will receive an attendance certificate stating that they participated in the activity that was designated for 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. 

Available Credit

  • 18.00 AMA
  • 18.00 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$575.00
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