WCM-Q/ACGME Launches Assessment Workshop for Physicians

Press release

Published September 10th, 2019 - 07:29 GMT

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Highlights

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) is running a two-and-a-half-day training course on competency-based medical education for healthcare leaders and educators from Thursday, September 19 to Saturday, September 21, 2019. The course, titled Assessment in Competency Based Medical Education: A Faculty Development Program, has space for 40 participants and is intended for physicians only, particularly residency and fellowship program directors, associate program directors, and faculty members with responsibility for the assessment of residents/fellows.

The course is being provided through a regional Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) training hub established in Qatar as part of a memorandum of understanding between the ACGME and WCM-Q. The course will feature speakers from ACGME, WCM-Q and Vanderbilt University.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to discuss the implications of competency based medical education, employ tools for effective assessment and feedback, explore key strategies in identifying and remediating a struggling learner, and apply techniques to improve direct observation.

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Background Information

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar is a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation. It offers a comprehensive six-year medical program leading to the Cornell University M.D. degree with teaching by Cornell and Weill Cornell faculty and by physicians at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, the Primary Health Care Corporation, the Feto Maternal Center, and Sidra Medicine, who hold Weill Cornell appointments. Through its biomedical research program, WCM-Q is building a sustainable research community in Qatar while advancing basic science and clinical research. Through its medical college, WCM-Q seeks to provide the finest education possible for medical students, to improve health care both now and for future generations, and to provide high quality health care to the Qatari population.