By: Ylva Holzhausen The assessment of “Entrustable professional activities” (EPAs) by means of entrustment–supervision scales represent a major refinement of competency-based curricula (ten Cate, 2005). EPAs define the activities that trainees are expected to perform […]
By: Ezgi Tiryaki (@Neuro_Edu_ET) and Felix Ankel (@felixankel) You are an associate dean for medical education at an academic health system. For the last couple of years, residency directors have done an incredible job navigating […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]