• Patient Care
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
• Interpersoal and Communication Skills
• Professionalism
• Systems-Based Practice

Known as the Outcome Project, the long-term goal is to increase the emphasis on educational outcome assessment as part of the accreditation process. Expectations for increased emphasis on outcome assessment are reflected in changes to Program and Institutional Requirements that require programs to:

• Identify learning objectives related to the ACGME's general competencies
• Use increasingly more dependable (i.e. objective) methods of assessing residents' attainment of these competency-based objectives; and,
• Use outcome data to facilitate continuous improvement of both resident and residency program performance.

Please refer to this site for updates on information and tools to assist programs with developing and implementing strategies to meet the ACGME requirements.

The following links provide additional information and tools to assist programs in creating a portfolio of objectives and evaluation methods for each of the six competencies.

www.acgme.org/outcome/assess/ToolTable.pdf

www.acgme.org/outcome/assess/toolbox.asp

www.acgme.org/outcome/project/thinktank.asp

To see examples of objectives and evaluation methods developed by various programs, click here.