Studying patient-focused approaches to physician performance assessment – an interview with Dr Dan Schumacher

Dr Dan Schumacher is a tenured professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he also serves as co-director of the CCHMC Education Research Unit and Education Research Scholars Program. His career has been dedicated to residency administration and medical education research, and he holds a PhD from the Maastricht University School of Health Professions Education. His research focuses on competency-based assessment, including milestones, EPAs, and resident-sensitive quality measures that he developed as part of his PhD work.  His research on competency-based assessment has garnered substantial external funding and made important advances in patient-focused assessment approaches, such as EPAs and RSQMs. The goal of his research is to ensure that training and educational outcomes prepare physicians to achieve the outcomes that patients need.Dan is one of a select number of Americans who are members of the International Competency-based Medical Education Collaborators. He received Academic Medicine's Excellence in Reviewing Award as well as multiple top reviewer awards from the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. He was also Cincinnati Children's first recipient of the prestigious and competitive Macy Faculty Scholar Award from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and received the Cincinnati Children's Educational Achievement Award in 2018.