Finding Medicine's Moneyball : How Lessons From Major League Baseball Can Advance Assessment in Precision Education

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ABSTRACT: Precision education (PE) leverages longitudinal data and analytics to tailor educational interventions to improve patient, learner, and system-level outcomes. At present, few programs in medical education can accomplish this goal as they must develop new data streams transformed by analytics to drive trainee learning and program improvement. Other professions, such as Major League Baseball (MLB), have already developed extremely sophisticated approaches to gathering large volumes of precise data points to inform assessment of individual performance.In this perspective, the authors argue that medical education-whose entry into precision assessment is fairly nascent-can look to MLB to learn the possibilities and pitfalls of precision assessment strategies. They describe 3 epochs of player assessment in MLB: observation, analytics (sabermetrics), and technology (Statcast). The longest tenured approach, observation, relies on scouting and expert opinion. Sabermetrics brought new approaches to analyzing existing data in a way that better predicted which players would help the team win. Statcast created precise, granular data about highly attributable elements of player performance while helping to account for nonplayer factors that confound assessment such as weather, ballpark dimensions, and the performance of other players. Medical education is progressing through similar epochs marked by workplace-based assessment, learning analytics, and novel measurement technologies. The authors explore how medical education can leverage intersectional concepts of MLB player and medical trainee assessment to inform present and future directions of PE.

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E-Artikel

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:99

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Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges - 99(2024), 4S Suppl 1 vom: 01. Apr., Seite S35-S41

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Englisch

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Kinnear, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Caretta-Weyer, Holly [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Andrew C L [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Brandon [VerfasserIn]
Ginsburg, Shiphra [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Brian M [VerfasserIn]
Kelleher, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Schumacher, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Warm, Eric J [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/ACM.0000000000005600

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NLM366003623