Medical schools carefully select applicants who they foresee excelling in a demanding curriculum and as physicians – but what exactly are these predictors of success? While many past studies have assessed qualitative data for predicting […]
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CBME for Dummies
By: Kelly Caverzagie (@KCaverzagie) In contemplating the decades-long, worldwide journey towards Competency Based Medical Education (CBME), I am struck by our seeming inability to make considerable progress on a large scale. The reasons for this […]
Exploration Before Explanation: Embracing Errors to Develop Adaptive Expertise
By Leonardo Aliaga (@BolivianLeo) Adaptive expertise is the ability to transfer existing skills and knowledge to solve novel problems.1 Transfer is the currency of adaptive expertise. Achieving transfer depends on “seeing” a topic’s underlying structure.2 […]
#KeyLIMEPodcast 358: Does Accreditation Make You Smarter?
This week, the KeyLIME host discuss accreditation systems. While the goal of accreditation is to ensure the quality of medical education, there is limited research that links it to improved student and graduate outcomes. The […]
Beyond teaching: The argument for designated faculty assessors in CBME
By: Larry Gruppen (@lgruppen) We may have abandoned the assumption that everyone with an MD can teach, but we still assume that everyone with an MD can assess. I think that assumption needs to be […]