By: Brent Thoma, MD PhD and Dorothy Baker, MD Despite significant changes to medical education assessment over the past twenty years (1), little has changed about the transition between medical school and residency (2). While […]
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Category: Competency-based medical education
Situation awareness, caseload and thresholds of readiness for unsupervised practice
By: Olle ten Cate (@olletencate) On my way for a dental appointment some weeks ago, I got stuck in a traffic jam. While usually it takes me 15 minutes to get there, now I arrived […]
Coaching for Competency: A Key Skill for Medical Educators
By: Pedro Tanaka and Ann Dohn Competency-Based Education (CBE) emphasizes the attainment of specific skills, behaviors, and attitudes essential for professional practice. A critical and often underappreciated component of CBE is coaching. Coaching, as a […]
From Blocks to Building Competence: Rethinking the Core Clerkship Year of Medical School
By: Karen Hauer (https://profiles.ucsf.edu/karen.hauer) When asked, ‘How are you doing in your core clerkships?’, a medical student might share stories of the patients and conditions they have encountered, or the teachers they have met. However, […]
The Right to Be Forgotten: Is a Documented Work-Based Assessment Merely Formative or Low Stakes?
By: Fremen Chichen Chou (@FremenChou) Introduction By distilling the core components framework for evaluating the implementation of competency-based education (CBE) in healthcare professional education (HPE)1, we identify three primary dimensions for enacting CBE: This integrative […]