Competency‐based medical education in the United States: What the otolaryngologist needs to know

Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-focused approach to educating professionals that will be central future efforts improve resident training in otolaryngology. The transition CBME for otolaryngology the United States require development of specialty-specific assessments and benchmarks, financial administrative support implementation, professional faculty learners, cooperation all major stakeholders graduate education. In this article, we describe need evidence-based innovation surgical training, history States, progress towards defining “entrustable activities” as building blocks CBME. We explore what such a paradigm shift could mean academic otolaryngologists by examining innovative educational practices other specialties discussing foreseeable challenges implementation American healthcare system.