The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is collaborating with the American Board of Surgery (ABS) and Stanford University, which has been selected as one of 11 teams to receive funding from the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Transforming Lifelong Learning Through Precision Education Grant Program, a $12 million investment by AMA to advance physician training through personalized learning and advanced technology.
As lead institution, Stanford will receive $1.1 million across four years to fund the project entitled Enabled Precision Learning Curriculum for Procedural Skills Certification Across the Continuum. As co-investigators, ABMS and ABS will convene the Member Board community to investigate the role of these Precision Learning methods in certification processes.
Chosen from nearly 200 applicants, Stanford has distinguished itself as an innovator and leader in precision education, advancing efforts to strengthen the physician workforce and support high-quality patient care. Precision education models use data and technology, including augmented intelligence, to tailor learning to each learner’s needs. These models help medical students and physicians focus on developing the skills and competencies that matter most in diagnosing, communicating, and caring for patients.
The investigators will implement a mobile, scalable sensor technology approach that will enable faculty to quantitatively define competency and mastery in clinical procedural skill at a level of detail that is not possible even with direct human observation. Stanford will partner with academic medical centers and certification boards to implement data-driven precision learning and certification protocols for clinical procedural skills. By participating in the AMA precision education consortium during the next four years, Stanford and its co-investigators will help determine whether sensor-based measures will shorten the learning curve through personalized feedback with specific training and skill preservation recommendations.
The principal investigator is Carla Pugh, MD, PhD, a Professor of Surgery at Stanford University and Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement Center. Dr. Pugh served on the planning committee for the ABMS Procedural Skills Assessment Conference and served on the ABS Council, Assessment Committee, and General Surgery Board. Co-Investigator Martin Pusic, MD, PhD, is Director of the ABMS Research and Education Foundation as well as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Co-Investigator Andrew Jones, PhD, is the Chief Operating and Assessment Officer at ABS.
The AMA’s investment across 11 team projects will expand access to cutting-edge technology and systems that make learning more efficient, effective, and focused on optimal patient care. The Transforming Lifelong Learning Through Precision Education Grant Program was developed with national experts in augmented intelligence, assessment, and medical education and follows more than a decade of AMA leadership through its ChangeMedEd® Initiative, which has invested nearly $50 million in reimagining medical education. Learn more about the new precision education grant program.
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