Postgraduate Medical Education Information Booklet 2012-2013

University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine PGME 2012-2013
POWER
The Postgraduate Web Evaluation and Registration (POWER) system is a
web-based registration and evaluation system for postgraduate trainees,
teachers, and administrators. It was custom built for the Postgraduate
Medical Education Office (PGME) and is the primary information system
for tracking and monitoring trainees. All users of POWER (regardless of
location) are issued a PIN and password to access the secure system.
All PG trainees are registered through the PGME office on POWER.
POWER stores registration information including: contact information,
credential information, training status, immunization information, and
payroll data. This allows the PGME office to centrally administer the
registration process and allows programs to manage scheduling and reregistration.
It also allows for central storage and management of
registration information efficiently and seamlessly.
Evaluation is an essential component of residency training. It’s
necessary for accreditation standards of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada,
quality assurance, promotions and accountability. Postgraduate trainees
are scheduled on regular rotations, some as short as 2 weeks, some as
long as 6 months. At the end of every rotation (and often at the midpoint
for longer rotations), trainees are evaluated on their performance,
and are given a chance to evaluate their supervisor(s) and their
educational experience (rotations). These evaluations are entered online
in the POWER system. The system is able to monitor incomplete
evaluations, and to provide alerts of poor evaluations. POWER is also
used to generate reports to monitor evaluation completion, teacher
effectiveness, and rotation effectiveness.
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