Clinical Performance Dashboards for Emergency Medicine Residents: The Intersection of Education, Informatics, and Assessment (Informatics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Interest Group- and Educational Research Interest Group-Sponsored)

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires residents to receive quality metric and benchmark data related to their patient populations. Despite the shift toward competency-based medical education, most trainees lack consistent access to clinical performance data necessary for informed self-assessment and programmatic evaluation. Personalized dashboards, visual tools displaying performance data for decision-making, have emerged as a potential solution. This session features educators and informaticists from five emergency medicine residency programs who have successfully implemented dashboards. Panelists will explore the current landscape, institutional approaches to dashboard integration, challenges in implementation, and the potential impact on competency-based medical education and assessment.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Describe the current use of dashboards in emergency medicine for performance feedback.
  • Compare and contrast various approaches to dashboard design, metrics, platforms, and implementation strategies.
  • Discuss the future implications of integrating performance dashboards into GME assessment.

Presenters:

  • Danielle T. Miller, MD
  • Sara M. Krzyzaniak, MD
  • Timothy A. Layng, DO
  • Ashley C. Rider, MD, MEHP
  • Selin T. Sagalowsky, MD, MPH
  • Benjamin H. Schnapp, MD, MEd
  • Sean S. Michael, MD, MBA
  • Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS
  • Moira E. Smith, MD, MPH
Authors

  • Danielle T. Miller, MD, MEd

    Dr. Danielle Miller is currently a medical education researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. She completed her Medical Education Scholarship Fellow at Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine and Masters of Medical Education at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Miller's research has been in competency-based medical education in GME and UME including creating multiple mastery learning curricula in Emergency Department (ED) thoracotomy, donning and doffing PPE, and US-guided serratus anterior plan nerve blocks for rib fractures. Within the context of competency research, Dr. Miller received the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Education Research Grant for her project entitled “Development of a Simulation Curriculum and Web-Based Modules to Teach Core EPA 10 to Medical Students. Additionally, Dr. Miller's research includes the integration of technology into assessment of learners and how the electronic the electronic health record (EHR) can track educational interventions and patient-centered outcomes.

  • Sara M. Krzyzaniak, MD

    Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Clinical Associate Professor

    Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

    Sara Krzyzaniak MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University where she serves as an Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine as well as the Residency Program Director. She completed medical school at Northwestern University followed by residency training at Denver Health Residency in EM. She has had several leadership roles in medical education for the past decade. Dr. Krzyzaniak is passionate about medical education and enjoys mentoring and working with medical students and residents. Her research interests are in strategies to address the remediation of struggling learners and issues related to gender and race representation in medicine and has authored several peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She is a peer reviewer for several journals and is a guest consulting editor for WestJEM's CORD/CDEM issue. She has lectured nationally on both clinical and education topics.

  • Timothy A. Layng, DO

    UVA Health

    I completed my EM Residency at VCU Health in Richmond, VA where I served as chief resident. I then completed a Clinical Informatics Fellowship at UVA Health where I stayed on as Faculty and am currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Informatics for the Department of Emergency Medicine.

  • Ashley C. Rider, MD, MEHP

    Stanford University

    Ashley Rider, MD MEHP is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. She completed her residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA and her fellowship in Simulation Education at Stanford University. She is now faculty at Stanford and serves as the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Her academic interests include operations data as it relates to learner development, simulation-based education at the UME/GME levels, quality improvement, and interprofessional education.

  • Selin T. Sagalowsky, MD, MPH

    Dr. Selin T. Sagalowsky is the Vice Chair for Education, Scholarship, and Academic Development for the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her academic work focuses on curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation; competency-based and precision medical education; inclusion and wellness in medical education; and patient- and family-centered communication in the Emergency Department. Dr. Sagalowsky has served on and led working groups and committees for the advancement of competency-based education regionally and nationally, including: the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s subspecialty Milestones 2.0 for Pediatric Emergency Medicine; the Association of American Medical College’s Core Entrustable Professional Activities Pilot Program Working Group; and the American Board of Pediatrics’ Committee to map EPAs to Milestones. Clinically, Dr. Sagalowsky practices pediatric emergency medicine, with a particular interest in acutely ill children with rare and medically complex underlying conditions. She is also passionate about improving public health through emergency department initiatives, and on promoting patient- and family-centered communication in emergency care.

  • Benjamin H. Schnapp, MD, MEd

    University of Wisconsin

    Dr. Benjamin Schnapp graduated from the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency medicine residency program in New York City, where he completed a specialty track in medical education and served as chief resident. He completed his medical education fellowship at Northwestern University and is pursuing a master's in education with a focus on health professions at the University of Cincinnati. His interests include clinical teaching skills, resident assessment, and decision-making. He serves on the SAEM Graduate Medical Education and Fellowship Approval committees.

  • Sean S. Michael, MD, MBA

    University of Colorado

    Sean Michael is an academic emergency physician with dual-board certification in clinical informatics. He was previously the emergency department director at the University of Colorado Hospital and continues to practice clinically and serve on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine alongside his service as Regional Chief Medical Officer in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
  • Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS

    Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS

    University of Wisconsin

    Dr. Joe-Ann Moser is an Associate Professor and Assistant Residency Program Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the current EMRA Director of Education. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Afterward, she spent a year researching respiratory viruses at the National Institutes of Health before starting medical school. Dr. Moser received an MD with distinction in Medical Education and Global Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also completed her Emergency Medicine residency. She recently finished her Education Scholarship Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is pursuing a Master of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dr. Moser’s research interests include curriculum design, feedback using dashboards, and minimizing trainee and faculty burden to improve wellness.

  • Moira E. Smith, MD, MPH

    University of Virginia

    Moira Smith, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of Digital Clinical Workflows, and Assistant Emergency Medicine Informatics Director at the University of Virginia. She completed her emergency medicine residency and clinical informatics fellowship at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on data analytics and reporting, quality improvement, electronic health record usability and workflow optimization, and clinical decision support. She is the current Chair Elect of the SAEM Informatics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Interest Group.

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