William B Cutrer

Biographic Data

ID9555501
NAMEWilliam B Cutrer
GIVEN NAMESWilliam B
FAMILY NAMECutrer
SIGNATURECUTRER W B
AFFILIATIONSVanderbilt University
ORCID0000-0003-1538-9779
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Measuring the Master Adaptive Learner

    Sally A Santen, Adam Funk et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2026

    PURPOSE: The Master Adaptive Learner (MAL) is a model describing the collective skills of planning, learning, assessing, and adjusting that may translate into continually improving clinical proficiency. The objective of this study was to develop a MAL assessment instrument to measure these skills. METHOD: 1,427 students completed the 36-item candidate MAL instrument. The authors performed exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on half of the dataset. …

  • How well do workplace‐based assessments support summative entrustment decisions? A multi‐institutional generalisability study

    Open AccessMichael S Ryan, Katherine A Gielissen et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Competency-Based Medical Education in a Norm-Referenced World

    Open AccessMichael S Ryan, Kimberly D Lomis et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

    Competency-based medical education (CBME) requires a criterion-referenced approach to assessment. However, despite best efforts to advance CBME, there remains an implicit, and at times, explicit, demand for norm-referencing, particularly at the junction of undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME). In this manuscript, the authors perform a root cause analysis to determine the underlying reasons for continued norm-…

  • Revisiting the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency

    Jonathan M Amiel, Dorothy A Andriole et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    The Core EPAs for Entering Residency Pilot project aimed to test the feasibility of implementing 13 entrustable professional activities (EPAs) at 10 U.S. medical schools and to gauge whether the use of the Core EPAs could improve graduates’ performance early in residency. In this manuscript, the authors (members of the pilot institutions and Association of American Medical Colleges staff supporting the project evaluation) describe the schools’ ca…

  • The First 2 Years of Entrustment Decisions in the Core Entrustable Professional Activities (Core EPAs) Pilot

    Delindus R Brown, Jeremy J Moeller et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    Purpose: This retrospective study sought to describe (1) progress toward implementation of programmatic assessment in the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (Core EPA) pilot and (2) changes in entrustment decision-making outcomes, between initial attempt at entrustment decision making for the graduating class of 2019 and the second entrustment decision-making cycle for the graduating class of 2020. Approach/Methods: F…

  • Exploiting the power of information in medical education

    Open AccessWilliam B Cutrer, W Anderson Spickard et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    The explosion of medical information demands a thorough reconsideration of medical education, including what we teach and assess, how we educate, and whom we educate. Physicians of the future will need to be self-aware, self-directed, resource-effective team players who can synthesize and apply summarized information and communicate clearly. Training in metacognition, data science, informatics, and artificial intelligence is needed. Education pro…

  • Medical Student Portfolios

    Gary L Beck Dallaghan, Lisa Coplit et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

    William B Cutrer, Donald W Brady et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Medical Education Program Highlights Curriculum 2.0: This is a responsive, agile system of lifelong learning designed to prepare students, through highly personalized education, to adapt and respond to a rapidly evolving health care system. Curriculum 2.0 focuses on how to learn and understand concepts and relations, more than memorizing facts. Innovative, personalized curriculum: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) offers early clini…

  • The educators’ experience

    Lisa Auerbach, Sally A Santen et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2020

    BACKGROUND: The Master Adaptive Learner (MAL) theoretical framework describes an integrated approach to learning that combines features of educational theory on self-regulated learning and aspects of quality improvement. In order to develop MAL students, it is important to pay attention to the learning environment. PURPOSE: needed to promote the development of master adaptive learners. METHODS: Thematic analysis of reports by medical educators wh…

  • Fostering the Development of Master Adaptive Learners

    William B Cutrer, Bonnie M Miller et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2017

    Change is ubiquitous in health care, making continuous adaptation necessary for clinicians to provide the best possible care to their patients. The authors propose that developing the capabilities of a Master Adaptive Learner will provide future physicians with strategies for learning in the health care environment and for managing change more effectively. The concept of a Master Adaptive Learner describes a metacognitive approach to learning bas…