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The APA Faculty Development Special Interest Group
(FacDevSIG) exists to provide a professional home for pediatric medical educators interested in faculty development. Our focus is on the members' roles as faculty developers, not merely the members' own personal faculty development.

June 2013 Newsletter Article

The 2013 Faculty Development SIG meeting had 20 participants + 3 faculty and included oral presentations and a panel discussion. The topic centered on milestones and competencies in medical education. The oral presentations were about using milestones as a diagnostic tool to improve resident performance. One presentation was about using the competency project and milestones as a springboard for a reevaluation of assessment during rotations and to improve the program of instruction generally. There was a rich discussion about the implementation of the milestone project logistically and a long discussion about getting faculty buy-in for this new assessment framework. Some ideas for faculty developers include:

Having faculty self assess themselves against the milestones as a way to reduce the tendency of faculty to rate all residents highly regardless of their performance.
Use the milestones to let the residents self assess themselves as part of their individual learning plan.
Teach faculty advisors how to use milestones to chart where a resident is and what an individual resident needs to do to progress to the next level.
Teach faculty to use milestones as a diagnostic tool to pinpoint specific deficiencies in performance. Field data suggests that residents like the new milestones as clear descriptive markers of expected performance in residency.
Teach faculty the concept of EPA's. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA's) are statements of work that pediatricians must do as part of their professional duties. EPA's may be easier to understand and teach to core faculty rather than have everyone labor over the specifics of the milestones and competencies.
Teach division directors to use the competencies and their accompanying milestone levels to edit down the long list of rotational goals and objectives to those that can be reasonably observed using milestones language.

The group left with suggestions for future ideas for next year's SIG.

SIG Co-Chairs:
Mimi Bar-on
Mbar-on@medicine.nevada.edu

Joe Lopreiato
Joe.Lopreiato@simcen.usuhs.edu

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APA Educational Scholars Program

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Six-Domains of Faculty Development.

The career development needs of most academic pediatric faculty members fall into six domains. For each domain, we have provided a set of common faculty development goals. We recommend that APA members review and adapt the goal sets to create their own plans for personal career development.