CCC Quiz

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CCC Quiz: Assess Your Knowledge

Welcome to the CCC Quiz! This quiz is designed to test your understanding of the key components and requirements of Clinical Competency Committees (CCCs). It includes a range of multiple-choice questions covering various aspects of CCC functions, from membership requirements to feedback processes.

Participate in this quiz to:

Enhance your knowledge of CCC standards.
Prepare for evaluations and discussions in residency programs.
Familiarize yourself with the Milestone assessment process.

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2. Which of the following requirements of CCC is an OMSB P & T Standards requirement?

A. Include faculty members from other programs and non-physician members of the health care team

B. Determine resident/fellow progress, including promotions, remediation and dismissal

C. Have a written description of the CCCs responsibilities

D. Allow residents/fellows to exercise a grievance process if they disagree with the Milestone determination of the CCC

6. How many residents/fellows must participate on the CCC?

7. CCC Members:

A. Determine each resident/fellow’s progress on achievement of the specialty-specific Milestones

B. Only consider residents/fellows who need remediation

C. Only review residents/fellows in their final year of the program

D. Review the decisions the program director has already made regarding each resident/fellow and provide advice

E. Vote on each resident’s/fellow’s performance

8. A specialist (different specialty than the resident) evaluates a resident on a specialty service as performing poorly. The CCC should:

A. Use the grade provided by the specialist

B. Not consider the evaluation as it came from a different specialty as the program

C. Take the evaluation and apply it with other data to judge the resident’s performance

D. Vote whether the evaluation seems accurate and should be included in the overall review of the resident’s performance

9. The CCC must:

A. Submit Milestones summaries to the ACGME

B. Meet with all residents/fellows to discuss their individual progress on the Milestones

C. Design and implement any remediation plan necessary (and mentor the resident/fellow throughout)

D. Review all resident/fellow evaluations at least semi-annually

E. Share Milestones evaluations with the specialty board and state licensing board

10. A resident has not rotated through an experience over the past six months that hinders the CCC in making a determination on one of the milestones. The CCC should:

A. Leave that milestone blank

B. Drop back a level from the resident’s prior rating

C. Indicate the same level as the previous reporting period

D. Report that level as an “average” of the milestone levels that can be determined.

11. Who makes the final decision on a resident’s/fellow’s Milestone level?

12. Program Administrators:

A. Should serve as voting members of CCCs

B. Can manage submission of Milestone data for the ACGME-I

C. Should NOT attend the CCC meeting

D. None of the above

13. Which of the following is true about CCCs?

A. The best size of a CCC is 12-15 members

B. At least one peer-selected resident should attend

C. Faculty members and/or health professionals with “different” voices/options are encouraged to participate

D. The most senior persons should express their opinion first

E. None of the above

14. The most reliable assessment of performance is:

A. Multiple choice (written) examination

B. Global end-of-rotation evaluation

C. Multi-rater evaluation (multisource feedback)

D. Procedural log

E. Oral examination

F. Observation of actual performance

15. Which of the following statements regarding Milestones assessments is true?

A. Programs should give faculty members the entire Set of Milestones for them to use as part of their end-of-rotation evaluations

B. Faculty members should be encouraged to make inferences on the performance of residents ONLY based upon the performance they have directly observed

C. Faculty members should generally use the Milestones level that corresponds to a resident’s year in training (i.e., Level 1 for a PGY-1 resident)

D. Information gained from informal “hallway” conversations can be useful

E. CCCs should use the average calculated by their resident management system to determine the Milestones level

16. Using what’s known from the literature to encourage good group processes, the CCC should:

A. Encourage the most senior person to discuss a resident/fellow first

B. Have the CCC chair state opinions first

C. Avoid a structured format and use open forum for discussion

D. Use only the synthesis of a resident’s/fellow’s performance rather than the underlying data used to make that synthesis

E. Ask one member to offer an opposing or different view to help represent all possible perspectives

17. Feedback to residents/fellows following the CCC meeting is best accomplished through an email providing them with a written report of their Milestones performance.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

18. Which of the following is/are other possible roles of the CCC?

A. Contributing information for use in Annual Program Evaluation

B. Assessing the competence of residents/fellows transferring from non-ACGME-accredited programs to ACGME-accredited programs

C. Faculty development for core faculty members

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

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