Transition To Residency Symposium 2024

2024 Plenary Talk:

FeedBACK for Improving Resident Readiness for GME: State of a National Educational Program

Dr. Lisa Howley (AAMC)

During this session, the novel standardized Resident Readiness Survey (RRS) program will be presented and its implications for TTR Courses will be explored. The RRS enables program directors (PDs) to provide feedback to US MD- and DO-degree granting medical schools about their graduates’ preparedness for graduate medical education (GME) to inform both school-level and national curriculum quality improvement efforts. Now in its fourth year, the RRS was developed by educators from UME and GME and pilot-tested nationally for two years. This growing national RRS dataset includes individual-level data for all eligible PGY-1 residents and is being used to answer an array of questions about resident readiness for GME.

Dr. Lisa Howley is an Educational Psychologist and Senior Director for Transforming Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She joined the AAMC in 2016 and currently leads a diverse portfolio and multiple teams to advance the continuum of medical education, support experiential learning, and curricular transformation across its member institutions and their clinical partners. The Resident Readiness Survey Program, a standard process for sharing quality improvement feedback between GME and UME programs, is one of several educational innovations led by Dr. Howley designed to improve the transition to residency. Prior to her national role, she spent eight years as the Associate DIO and AVP of Medical Education and Physician Development for Carolinas HealthCare System, one of the largest independent academic medical centers in the U.S. In that role, she led several medical education initiatives across the professional development continuum, including graduate medical education accreditation, simulation-based education, as well as physician leadership development for the large integrated healthcare system. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She began her career as a member of the medical education faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where she designed and led performance-based assessments and simulation-enhanced curricula. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida, and both her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia.