TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic affairs and global health
T2 - how global health electives can accelerate progress towards ACGME milestones
AU - Hayward, Alison Schroth
AU - Jacquet, Gabrielle A.
AU - Sanson, Tracy
AU - Mowafi, Hani
AU - Hansoti, Bhakti
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Hayward et al.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Global health electives (GHEs) have become a standard offering in many residency programs. Residency electives should aid residents in achieving outcomes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency domains. In this paper, the authors review existing literature and provide expert opinion to highlight how global health electives can complement traditional training programs to assist residents in achieving ACGME milestones, using emergency medicine residency as an example. Recommendations are provided for identifying exemplary global health electives and for the development of institutional global health elective curricula in order to facilitate milestone achievement. Global health electives can advance progress towards ACGME milestones; however, they may vary greatly in terms of potential for learner advancement. Electives should thus be rigorously vetted to ensure they meet standards that will facilitate this process. Given that milestones are a newly introduced tool for assessing resident educational achievement, very little research is available currently to directly determine impacts, and further study will be needed.
AB - Global health electives (GHEs) have become a standard offering in many residency programs. Residency electives should aid residents in achieving outcomes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency domains. In this paper, the authors review existing literature and provide expert opinion to highlight how global health electives can complement traditional training programs to assist residents in achieving ACGME milestones, using emergency medicine residency as an example. Recommendations are provided for identifying exemplary global health electives and for the development of institutional global health elective curricula in order to facilitate milestone achievement. Global health electives can advance progress towards ACGME milestones; however, they may vary greatly in terms of potential for learner advancement. Electives should thus be rigorously vetted to ensure they meet standards that will facilitate this process. Given that milestones are a newly introduced tool for assessing resident educational achievement, very little research is available currently to directly determine impacts, and further study will be needed.
KW - Competency-based education
KW - Emergency medicine
KW - Global health
KW - Graduate medical education
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U2 - 10.1186/s12245-015-0093-0
DO - 10.1186/s12245-015-0093-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26628320
AN - SCOPUS:84948738327
SN - 1865-1372
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - International Journal of Emergency Medicine
JF - International Journal of Emergency Medicine
IS - 1
M1 - 45
ER -