Simulation-based assessment to identify critical gaps in safe anesthesia resident performance
Background: Valid methods are needed to identify anesthesia resident performance gaps early in training. However, many assessment tools in medicine have not been properly validated. The authors designed and tested use of a behaviorally anchored scale, as part of a multiscenario simulation-based assessment system, to identify high- and low-performing residents with regard to domains of greatest concern to expert anesthesiology faculty. © 2013, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.