What Is a Rheumatologist and How Do We Make One?

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• 作者：Calvin R. Brown Jr. ; Lisa Criscione-Schreiber ; Kenneth S. O' ; Rourke ; Howard A. Fuchs ; Chaim Putterman ; Irene J. Tan ; Joanne Valeriano-Marcet ; Evelyn Hsieh ; Sarah Zirkle and Mary B. Bolster
• 刊名：Arthritis Care & Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：68
• 期：8
• 页码：1166-1172
• 全文大小：220K
• ISSN：2151-4658

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Graduate medical education is a critical time in the training of a rheumatologist, and purposeful evaluation of abilities during this time is essential for long-term success as an independent practitioner. The internal medicine subspecialties collectively developed a uniform set of reporting milestones by which trainees can be assessed and receive formative feedback, providing clarity of accomplishment as well as areas for improvement in training. Furthermore, the reporting milestones provide a schema for assessment and evaluation of fellows by supervisors. The internal medicine subspecialties were also tasked with considering entrustable professional activities (EPAs), which define the abilities of a subspecialty physician who has attained sufficient mastery of the field to be accountable to stakeholders and participate in independent practice. Although EPAs have been established for a few specialties, they had not yet been described for rheumatology. EPAs have value as descriptors of the comprehensive abilities, knowledge, and skills of a practicing rheumatologist. The rheumatology EPAs have a role in defining a specialist in rheumatology upon completion of training, and also represent the ways our specialty defines our abilities that are enduring throughout practice.