By: Daniel J. Schumacher (@DrDanSchumacher) The maturation and advances we have seen in medical education assessment over the past few decades are remarkable. We are no longer tethered to high stakes single moment in time […]
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Category: Competency-based medical education
Implementing Competency-Based Assessment in the Clinical Workplace: Does it Cut the Mustard?
By: Vasiliki Andreou Medical trainees spend on average 2,080 hours in their workplace per calendar year! It shows how much postgraduate medical education relies on workplace learning and assessment. Workplace assessments have numerous benefits, but […]
How a Pilot Project Became a National Standard
By: Markku T. Nousiainen The implementation of competency-based medical education (CBME) in postgraduate medical education in Canada has developed along the “Competence By Design” (CBD) framework of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (RC). […]
AAMC Core EPAs Pilot: Lessons Learned and Implications for CBME
By: Jonathan Amiel (@jmamd) Ten years ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges convened a group of North American medical educators and education scholars to propose a set of EPAs that medical school graduates should […]
No program left behind: Everyone should be analyzing and visualizing educational data
By: Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma) and Stefanie Sebok-Syer (@StefSebok) The widespread implementation of competency-based medical education (CBME) has unveiled a new problem: a vast amount of completed workplace-based assessments that are not being effectively aggregated, analyzed, […]