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. […]
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Category: Competency-based medical education
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) […]
Challenging assumptions is the only way forward for competency-based training models
By: Shelley Ross, PhD, MCFP (Hon) There has been a steady increase in publications about competency-based medical education (CBME), to the point where CBME is arguably one of the most prominent topics in the health […]