Assessment in HPM Fellowship Training: Updates from the Assessment Workgroup (FR242)

Outcomes 1. Describe the current state of competency-based training (entrustable professional activities and milestones) 2. Understand how the prior assessment toolkit was developed and how assessment and faculty development are an essential part of a fellowship program 3. Discuss assessment gaps and consider potential assessment strategies, including faculty development Medical education in the United States and globally has been moving to competency-based training rather than time-based training over the past decade to better serve trainees and our patients. From 2014 to 2019, AAHPM convened a workgroup to develop entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and curricular milestones, and from 2017 to 2019 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education convened a workgroup to update their reporting milestones to be speciality-specific to the field of hospice and palliative medicine (HPM). With these new goals for training HPM fellows in mind, consideration of how HPM fellows are assessed and how faculty are trained to do so becomes more essential. The current Toolkit of Assessment Methods was completed in 2010 by AAHPM members, and various components of it have been used by HPM training programs across the country. This interactive session led by the AAHPM Assessment Workgroup will bring together program directors, associate program directors, fellowship faculty, and other stakeholders to discuss the workgroup's progress to date, our current gaps in assessment, and assessment strategies and faculty development ideas.