Assessing the New General Competencies for Resident Education

Piaac: a New Strategy for Assessing Adult Competencies

At a time when governments face the challenges of maintaining competitiveness in a global economy, it is necessary to have high-quality comparative information regarding the fundamental skills of the adult population. Such information can help governments to evaluate policies and design more effective interventions. This article describes a strategy currently being developed by the OECD for ass...

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Assessing the 'fit': using competencies to select new board members.

General competencies and accreditation in graduate medical education.

Many have recommended changing the professional development of physicians. Concluding that further educational process specification was inadequate, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) decided to specify six general competencies of graduate medical education (GME): patient care; medical knowledge; practice-based learning and improvement; professionalism; interperson...

Education research: Assessment of neurology resident clinical competencies in the neurology clinic.

BACKGROUND Objective evaluation of neurology resident clinical skills is required by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is important to insure improvement in clinical competency throughout their residency. METHODS In this study, neurology residents from all 3 years of training and neurology faculty independently completed a form on new clinic patients documenting their decisio...