Join Logan and Dr. Nijjar, Program Director Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, as they discuss milestone evaluations – what are they, how to use them, and more.

LINKS

• Podcast Website
• ACGME Website
• Dedicated Milestone Page
• Milestones by Specialty
• Dr. Nijjar's Email: bloes001@umn.edu
• Find the complete transcription HERE 

Correction

• 13:17 - Fellowship Program Directors can view resident milestones, but only after the trainee matriculates into the fellowship and before the trainee has their first set of fellowship milestones entered.  See this link for more details. 

[Time] & Question

[00:02:03] When in your career did you first hear about milestone evaluations?

[00:02:22] And what was kind of your understanding of milestone evaluations at that time?

[00:02:57] About how long did it take you to kind of understand all the milestones for your specialty and how to use them appropriately for each resident and fellow?

[00:03:52] Is it just you that fills out the milestone evaluations, or are there committees or do other faculty fill out milestone evaluations for your trainees?

[00:04:48] Is it required for all faculty to fill out milestone evaluations, or is there some way that you or maybe require faculty or can ensure that all faculty are filling out of milestone evaluations?

[00:05:52] As far as trainees coming into the program, I know that there are different levels of milestones. Do all trainees start at the same level or can they be at different levels?

[00:07:22] And do you find that trainees are pretty honest with themselves to where they feel they are?

[00:08:17] So kind of on that same end. How do you guide your trainees to progress throughout these milestones?

[00:09:45] Approximately how much time did you or someone else or the Clinical Competence Committee spend each year each month going through all these milestone evaluations for each trainee?

[00:11:22] At what point do you identify that a trainee is struggling in a certain milestone? And you mentioned individualized learning plans, but how do you help them out or sit with them and help identify kind of what's been going on and how to help them progress?

[00:13:15] Can Fellowship's see milestone evaluations for prospective applicants?

[00:14:13] When do you start kind of consolidating all this data and entering it into ADS?

[00:14:59] Is there anything that maybe you wanted to mention briefly or anything that I maybe didn't mention that you were hoping to mention?

[00:17:00] And so to elaborate more on your pilot evaluation program, is this something that's different from milestone evaluations?

[00:17:48] And so how long have you been running this pilot program for?

[00:19:07] If you have any questions for Dr. Nijjar, you can reach out to her via email (found above).