The American Society of Hematology and ASCO Curricular Milestones for Assessment of Fellows in Hematology/Oncology: Development, Reflection, and Next Steps

The goal of our fellowship education is to train the next generation of hematologists/oncologists to be compassionate, engaged, and knowledgeable physicians with a lifelong desire to learn and thrive in our field. In today’s complex training environment, our fellows are in many different locations, with many different mentors, and engaged in multiple activities. It is necessary to have a straightforward system to measure their progress. The ACGME monitors the training programs with nine annual metrics—program leadership changes, documentation of scholarly activity, program attrition, board pass rate, clinical experience, resident survey, faculty survey, completion of milestone evaluations, and clinical learning environment review.1 Programs complete one of the metrics, the milestone evaluations for each trainee, twice a year on the ACGME website. The specific reporting milestones vary between specialties, but the overall goal of measuring the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that trainees achieve during training is the same. ASH and ASCO convened their training program committees and guest experts in 2013 to develop the ASH/ASCO Curricular Milestones.2,3 The intent of this activity was to develop a document that would cover all of the activities that are important to our profession and could serve as a tool to monitor progress and develop curriculum.4 Now, after 4 years of using the ASH/ASCO Curricular Milestones, we are reflecting on how it has been used and have proposed modifications for the future. BACKGROUND Section: ChooseTop of pageAbstractBACKGROUND <