| Literature DB >> 30236097 |
Samantha Halman1, Janelle Rekman2, Timothy Wood3, Andrew Baird4, Wade Gofton5, Nancy Dudek6.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Workplace based assessment (WBA) is crucial to competency-based education. The majority of healthcare is delivered in the ambulatory setting making the ability to run an entire clinic a crucial core competency for Internal Medicine (IM) trainees. Current WBA tools used in IM do not allow a thorough assessment of this skill. Further, most tools are not aligned with the way clinical assessors conceptualize performances. To address this, many tools aligned with entrustment decisions have recently been published. The Ottawa Clinic Assessment Tool (OCAT) is an entrustment-aligned tool that allows for such an assessment but was developed in the surgical setting and it is not known if it can perform well in an entirely different context. The aim of this study was to implement the OCAT in an IM program and collect psychometric data in this different setting. Using one tool across multiple contexts may reduce the need for tool development and ensure that tools used have proper psychometric data to support them.Entities:
Keywords: Ambulatory setting; Entrustment alignment; Workplace-based assessment
Mesh:
Year: 2018 PMID: 30236097 PMCID: PMC6148769 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-018-1327-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Med Educ ISSN: 1472-6920 Impact factor: 2.463
Descriptive statistics for the OCAT in Internal Medicine
| OCAT Item | Rating | Range | ITCs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Min | Max | ||
| History | 4.26 | 0.63 | 2 | 5 | 0.79 |
| Physical Exam | 4.24 | 0.62 | 2 | 5 | 0.75 |
| Case presentation | 4.30 | 0.64 | 2 | 5 | 0.83 |
| Differential Dx | 4.06 | 0.67 | 2 | 5 | 0.76 |
| Management plan | 3.93 | 0.70 | 2 | 5 | 0.71 |
| Communication | 4.41 | 0.60 | 3 | 5 | 0.76 |
| Documentation | 4.35 | 0.59 | 3 | 5 | 0.73 |
| Collaboration | 4.42 | 0.60 | 1 | 5 | 0.69 |
| Time management | 4.31 | 0.65 | 3 | 5 | 0.74 |
SD Standard deviation, Min Minimum rating, Max Maximum rating, ITCs Item-total correlations
Generalizability analysis
| Effect | σ 2 | % |
|---|---|---|
|
| 0.12 | 24 |
|
| 0.02 | 4 |
|
| 0.03 | 6 |
|
| 0.13 | 32 |
|
| 0.01 | 1 |
|
| 0.01 | 2 |
|
| 0.15 | 31 |
f Forms, r Resident, t Training level, i Item, σ 2 variance component, % % variance
Effect of training level on mean OCAT scores
| Training level | Mean | SD |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Juniors | 3.80 | 0.49 | 40 |
| Seniors | 4.22 | 0.47 | 288 |
| Fellows | 4.70 | 0.36 | 62 |
Abbreviations: SD Standard deviation, N Number of forms
Is the learner safe to run this clinic independently?
| Mean | No | Mean | Yes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD |
| % | SD |
| % | |||
| Juniors | 3.59 | 0.49 | 21 | 54 | 4.07 | 0.35 | 18 | 46 |
| Seniors | 4.11 | 0.43 | 188 | 71 | 4.46 | 0.48 | 75 | 29 |
| Fellows | 4.33 | 0.32 | 11 | 20 | 4.84 | 0.25 | 44 | 80 |
| Total | 4.07 | 0.46 | 220 | 62 | 4.53 | 0.47 | 137 | 38 |
Abbreviations: SD Standard deviation, N Number of forms, % Percentage of group
Inter-Item Correlation Matrix
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | Q9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 1.00 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.65 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.52 | 0.60 |
| Q2 | 0.73 | 1.00 | 0.73 | 0.67 | 0.54 | 0.57 | 0.57 | 0.49 | 0.56 |
| Q3 | 0.78 | 0.73 | 1.00 | 0.72 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.58 |
| Q4 | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.72 | 1.00 | 0.73 | 0.57 | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.56 |
| Q5 | 0.58 | 0.54 | 0.62 | 0.73 | 1.00 | 0.54 | 0.53 | 0.45 | 0.58 |
| Q6 | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.70 | 0.57 | 0.54 | 1.00 | 0.64 | 0.65 | 0.62 |
| Q7 | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 0.63 |
| Q8 | 0.52 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 1.00 | 0.66 |
| Q9 | 0.60 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.66 | 1.00 |
Q = item
Effect of training level on mean item OCAT scores
| Juniors ( | Seniors ( | Fellows ( | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| History | 3.70 | 0.69 | 4.23 | 0.57 | 4.77 | 0.42 |
| Physical Exam | 3.65 | 0.62 | 4.21 | 0.55 | 4.77 | 0.46 |
| Case presentation | 3.68 | 0.62 | 4.28 | 0.60 | 4.81 | 0.40 |
| Differential Dx | 3.50 | 0.68 | 4.03 | 0.62 | 4.55 | 0.50 |
| Management plan | 3.43 | 0.75 | 3.89 | 0.64 | 4.47 | 0.62 |
| Communication | 4.00 | 0.56 | 4.38 | 0.58 | 4.77 | 0.46 |
| Documentation | 4.05 | 0.55 | 4.31 | 0.57 | 4.69 | 0.53 |
| Collaboration | 4.18 | 0.68 | 4.38 | 0.59 | 4.79 | 0.41 |
| Time management | 4.05 | 0.71 | 4.27 | 0.64 | 4.68 | 0.47 |
Abbreviations: SD Standard deviation, N Number of forms
Is the learner safe to run this clinic independently? (outlier removed)
| Mean | No | Mean | Yes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD |
| % |
|
| % | |||
| Juniors | 3.58 | 0.46 | 19 | 73 | 4.05 | 0.50 | 7 | 27 |
| Seniors | 4.11 | 0.43 | 188 | 72 | 4.46 | 0.49 | 73 | 28 |
| Fellows | 4.33 | 0.32 | 11 | 20 | 4.84 | 0.25 | 44 | 80 |
| Total | 4.07 | 0.46 | 218 | 64 | 4.57 | 0.47 | 124 | 36 |
Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, N number of forms,% percentage of group
Crosstabulation of training level by safe to run a clinic
| Safe to run clinic independently? | ||
|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | |
| Juniors | −0.6 | 0.8 |
| Seniors | 2.0 | −2.6 |
| Fellows | −3.9 | 5.0 |
NB: Standard residuals shown with values above 1.96 being statistically significant