By: Vanessa Burch, MD, PhD The 2023 Gallup poll of US public opinion showed that while medicine, nursing and pharmacy are still considered honest and ethical professions (Figure 1), ratings of these health care professions […]
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Category: Competency-based medical education
Developing a passion for CBME: Why the “why” matters
By: Michael S. Ryan, MD, MEHP Story #1 I leapt out of my twin call room bed to the terrifying but increasingly familiar sound of my bulky plastic pager with its dim, green, backlit screen. […]
When Senior Students Need More, not Less Supervision: Breaking a Common Assumption?
By: Lydia S.T. Lau, RN Most readers of this blog may assume that trainees in the health professions, specifically in the clinical workplace, follow, on average, a smooth developmental pathway characterized by gradually increasing autonomy […]
Programmatic Assessment: Moving Beyond Psychometrics Not Away From
By: Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd In 2013, Brian Hodges penned a seminal piece entitled, “Assessment in the post-psychometric era: learning to love the subjective and collective.”1 In the years since, several articles have […]
Competency-Based Education Implementation in LMICs
By: Roberta Ladenheim MD, MHPE (Argentina), Reshma G. Kini, MD (India), Daniel Nel MD, PhD (South Africa) In October 2024, the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborative (ICBHPE) hosted a webinar on Competency-Based Education (CBE) […]