BACKGROUND: When mandated as resident competencies in 1999, systems-based practice (SBP) and practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) were new concepts to many. OBJECTIVE: To describe and evaluate a 4-week clinical elective (Achieving Competence Today-ACT) to teach residents SBP and PBLI. DESIGN: ACT consisted of a four-week active learning course and follow-up teaching experience, guided and supported by web-based materials. The curriculum included readings, scheduled activities, work products including an improvement project, and weekly meetings with a non-expert preceptor. The evaluation used a before-after cross-comparison of ACT residents and their peers. PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-eight residents and 42 faculty in 18 US Internal Medicine residency programs participated between 2003 and 2005. RESULTS AND MAIN MEASUREMENTS: All residents and faculty preceptors responded to a knowledge test, survey of attitudes, and self-assessment of competency to do 15 tasks related to SBP/PBLI. All measures were normalized to a 100-point scale. Each program's principal investigator (PI) identified aspects of ACT that were most and least effective in enhancing resident learning. ACT residents' gains in knowledge (4.4 on a 100-point scale) and self-assessed competency (11.3) were greater than controls' (-1.9, -8.0), but changes in attitudes were not significantly different. Faculty preceptors' knowledge scores did not change, but their attitudes became more positive (15.8). PIs found a ready-to-use curriculum effective (rated 8.5 on a 10-point scale). CONCLUSIONS: ACT increased residents' knowledge and self-assessment of their own competency and raised faculty's assessment of the importance of residents' learning SBP/PBLI. Faculty content expertise is not required for residents to learn SBP/PBLI.
BACKGROUND: When mandated as resident competencies in 1999, systems-based practice (SBP) and practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) were new concepts to many. OBJECTIVE: To describe and evaluate a 4-week clinical elective (Achieving Competence Today-ACT) to teach residents SBP and PBLI. DESIGN: ACT consisted of a four-week active learning course and follow-up teaching experience, guided and supported by web-based materials. The curriculum included readings, scheduled activities, work products including an improvement project, and weekly meetings with a non-expert preceptor. The evaluation used a before-after cross-comparison of ACT residents and their peers. PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-eight residents and 42 faculty in 18 US Internal Medicine residency programs participated between 2003 and 2005. RESULTS AND MAIN MEASUREMENTS: All residents and faculty preceptors responded to a knowledge test, survey of attitudes, and self-assessment of competency to do 15 tasks related to SBP/PBLI. All measures were normalized to a 100-point scale. Each program's principal investigator (PI) identified aspects of ACT that were most and least effective in enhancing resident learning. ACT residents' gains in knowledge (4.4 on a 100-point scale) and self-assessed competency (11.3) were greater than controls' (-1.9, -8.0), but changes in attitudes were not significantly different. Faculty preceptors' knowledge scores did not change, but their attitudes became more positive (15.8). PIs found a ready-to-use curriculum effective (rated 8.5 on a 10-point scale). CONCLUSIONS: ACT increased residents' knowledge and self-assessment of their own competency and raised faculty's assessment of the importance of residents' learning SBP/PBLI. Faculty content expertise is not required for residents to learn SBP/PBLI.
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