About the Procedure Competency Tool

Procedural competency is a significant issue in resident education.  Competency can be defined and assessed in various ways, including through procedure performance observation, demonstration of satisfactory medical knowledge of the procedure, as well as sheer numbers of procedures performed.  Each residency is able to define for itself how they will teach and assess procedural competency.  This website now provides tools that may be used by any residency or resident to demonstrate evidence of procedural competency.

 CORD is providing specific procedure tests, procedure checkoff forms, and procedure totals for selected key procedures.  The process for this is:

1. The resident enters in procedure totals for the high risk procedures noted

2. The resident enters in number of checkoff sheets completed (observed assessment of performance) for each procedure:

Arthrocentesis    Central Lines    Chest Tubes    Lumbar Puncture    Conscious Sedation    Intubation

3. The system puts in your individual procedure test score

4. The residency attests to the procedure and checkoff sheet number

5. The residency assesses competency level- observer only, under supervision, independent.  By default the system is set so that a resident progresses from Observe to Under Supervision after that resident scores 70% or greater for that test.

This module is totally voluntary in terms of whether an individual residency wishes to use it.  This is not for procedure logging, rather it takes numbers from the procedure logger a residency uses to address competency.

The tests currently available:

Central Lines    Chest Tubes    Lumbar Puncture    Conscious Sedation    Intubation

More tests will be added as available, as well as references, online videos, etc.

Many thanks to Nickolas Shundry in the development of the tests used for the specific procedures.