Abstract
Introduction The assessment of skills acquired during plastic surgery residency remains challenging. The present study aimed to validate The Plastic Surgery Milestones Project 2.0—a tool used to assess the competencies developed by plastic surgery residents in programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)—to enable its use in plastic surgery residency programs in Brazil.
Materials and Methods The process involved obtaining authorization from the ACGME, translating the instrument into Portuguese, adaptation by plastic surgery experts, content validation based on theoretical frameworks, and back translation to assess semantic equivalence.
Results The adapted instrument remained similar to the original after considerations and adjustments made by Brazilian experts. With the back translation, which was evaluated by a medical education expert and the ACGME, the adequacy of the translation was confirmed, which enabled the validation of the content of the instrument for the context of plastic surgery in Brazil. The similarity between Brazilian and international competencies facilitated this successful adaptation.
Conclusion The translation and adaptation of the Milestones instrument for the Brazilian culture was successful, since it maintained the original's psychometric properties. The adapted version is ready for application. However, additional studies are necessary to validate its accuracy and reliability in Brazilian programs.
Keywords clinical competence - education - medical - internship and residency - surgery - plastic - translation
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