Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment
In 2022, the Macy Foundation convened educators, learners, and others to develop a shared vision for an optimal learner assessment system that supports diversity, equity, and belonging in medical education. Their recommendations, published in Academic Medicine, expand on related recommendations from the 2020 conference on eliminating harmful bias and discrimination in health professions learning environments (see below). The 2022 recommendations include aligning assessment with core values; creating and providing faculty development programming in designing, implementing, and continuously improving equitable assessment; developing mechanisms for and removing barriers to co-creation with learners; and more. As a follow-up to this conference, the Foundation announced its Ensuring Fairness in Clinical Assessment RFA to support demonstration projects to implement innovative strategies for enhancing fairness in clinical assssment in schools of medicine and nursing.