Targeted Learning Assessment and Remediation
The ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker enables residency programs to assess potential knowledge gaps and create appropriate remediation plans as residents work through ACP MKSAP’s individualized learning platform. A free enhancement included within ACP MKSAP, the ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker combines the benefits of ACP MKSAP’s trusted self-assessment content with an educator’s toolbox facilitating tracking of residents’ proficiency and progress in answering MKSAP’s psychometrically validated multiple-choice questions. With the Tracker’s assignment feature, programs can create custom sets of questions, based on identified educational needs, to address knowledge gaps and reinforce learning.
The ACP MKSAP Tracker includes key improvements that have been most requested by Tracker administrators, program directors, and residents, the ability to add due dates to assignments, and availability of assignments in the iOS and Android apps as well as in the web-based platform.
Free “Plug-and-Play” Educator’s Toolbox
The ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker is built in to the ACP MKSAP program and, unlike other products, doesn’t require a phone call to discuss the size of your program or special pricing arrangements because it’s always 100% free with each resident’s MKSAP subscription, regardless of program size. We’ve built the Tracker based on real educators’ hands-on testing experience and detailed feedback from residency programs of various sizes with a myriad of learning requirements.
Flexibility and Convenience
In addition, ACP allows program staff (e.g., coordinators, administrators, directors, chief residents) to set up groups, participate in other tracking activities, and view question previews, even without an ACP MKSAP subscription.
Programs can also use ACP MKSAP Tracker to inform their assessments of each resident’s progress toward ACGME Milestones in Medical Knowledge and in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement.
And with the ability to export ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker data to Excel or .CSV files, programs can customize reports, maintain longitudinal data, or combine data from MKSAP 19 and ACP MKSAP to meet critical documentation needs. Note that the MKSAP 19 Residency Program Tracker and the ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker are not connected and information available in the MKSAP 19 Residency Program Tracker is not able to be imported into the ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker.
Sign-up is simple, and ACP Member and Product Support staff are available to answer any questions along the way.
ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker Features
Here are a few ways to maximize ACP MKSAP’s educational value through the Residency Program Tracker:
- Create customized question assignments based on ACP MKSAP subspecialty topic or area requiring improvement as demonstrated through ACP MKSAP self-assessment question scores
- Measure learning improvement by creating pre-intervention and post-intervention question assignments
- Review residents’ responses to individual questions to identify incorrectly selected distractors and address potentially confusing points
- Review aggregate data to identify areas for potential curricular adjustment
- Export reports or print out page views for use as a source of documentation of the ACGME Milestones Knowledge Competency
- Identify poorly performing questions and “dissect the question” during noon conferences
User Roles
Two types of user roles are available within the ACP MKSAP Tracker:
A Word on Account Sharing
Sharing of ACP MKSAP account usernames and passwords is strictly prohibited. ACP MKSAP is designed for individual use as per the ACP MKSAP Digital End-User License Agreement. Residents who share their ACP MKSAP username and password with other residents nullify the validity of their scores reported through ACP MKSAP tracker because accounts that are shared no longer reflect an individual resident’s progress. We monitor access and use on accounts, and we will suspend access to the program for any account where we suspect account sharing.
Sharing of ACP MSKAP Tracker usernames and passwords with those who do not specifically have an ACP MKSAP Tracker account is strictly prohibited. Sharing of ACP MKSAP Tracker usernames or passwords with those who do not have accounts jeopardizes the privacy of residents, whose ACP MKSAP performance status is contained within ACP MKSAP Tracker. MKSAP subscribers participating in ACP MKSAP Tracker will use their ACP username and password to access the tool. All individuals serving as monitors/administrators will be given unique usernames and passwords to access ACP MKSAP Tracker and do not need to share accounts.
