The Next Era of Assessment: Equitable Patient Care and Precision Education for Learners

As part of the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative’s new strategic focus on precision education, the AMA supported a supplement in the April 2024 issue of Academic Medicine entitled, “The Next Era of Assessment: Advancing Precision Education for Learners to Ensure High-Quality, Equitable Care for Patients.” In the supplement, authors compel readers to consider a next era of assessment that places less focus on how assessment is done (e.g., tests, work-based assessment) and more focus on why it is done: to ensure high-quality, equitable care for patients. This vision stems from competency-based education, which places the focus on ensuring training outcomes prepare graduates to provide the care patients need and applying a learner-centered approach to education. The supplement also promotes precision education as an approach that meets learners where they are in their development and helps them take the specific next steps needed to continue their development.

This webinar features guest editors from the AMA ChangeMedEd® supplement in Academic Medicine and explore how the future of assessment – and the meaningful use of learning and data analytics in medical education – can focus on ensuring high quality equitable care.