Laura E Chiel, Erica L Stevens, Lara C Bishay, Melanie S Collins, Jennifer A Rama, Laura Edgar, Sydney McLean, Ida Haynes, Hiren Muzumdar, Pnina Weiss, Debra Boyer, B Louise Giles
Pediatric pulmonology fellowship training programs are required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to report Pediatric Subspecialty Milestones biannually to track fellow progress. However, several issues, such as lack of subspecialty-specific context and ambiguous language, have raised concerns about their validity and applicability to use for fellow assessment and curriculum development. In this Perspective, we briefly share the process of the Pediatric Pulmonology Milestones 2.0 Work Group in creating new specialty-specific Milestones and tailoring information on the Harmonized Milestones to pediatric pulmonologists, with the goal of improving the Milestones' utility for stakeholders, including pulmonology fellows, faculty, program directors, and accrediting bodies...
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