The development of outpatient milestones.

The Milestones work group sought to establish a baseline of expected competence development across the six core competencies. The subcompetencies and milestones reflect the committee's work with input from ABPN, AADPRT, and AAP. They are intended to serve not only as consistent markers of progress nationwide but also as a basis by which individual programs can build their own milestones that reflect unique qualities of any given learning environment. The Milestones work group anticipates that iterative changes will be made as the milestones are broadly implemented. In anticipating the implementation of outpatient milestones, the committee will be particularly interested to how effectively psychotherapy milestones will be captured through the combination of outpatient evaluations and other data points captured in the program director's semiannual evaluation.