Curriculum Transformation: From Didactic to Competency-Based Programs in Pharmaceutical Medicine

CULTURE IN MEDICINE Cultural Immersion in a Cultural Competency Curriculum

Objective: Cultural competency is becoming increasingly important nationally. During recent seminars held throughout Hawai’i on Native Hawaiian health, several questions were raised related to cultural competency. First, can providers’ cultural competency improve the poor health status of Native Hawaiians? Second, how can Native Hawaiian physicians, who are trained in Western medicine and Weste...

Competency-Based Curriculum: Linking Theory and Practice

Background and objective: Most higher education curricula do not provide the competencies graduates need in the occupational fields, resulting in waste of money and lower effectiveness while increasing the number of unemployed graduates. Competency-based education is an innovative educational model that can solve such problems and lead education activists to design competency-based curricula. T...

Competency-based curriculum: Permanent transition in dentistry

Contemplation on Competency-based Curriculum in Medical Education

Introduction: One of the approaches to explaining the relationship between education and the world of work, and reducing the gap between students’ knowledge and their professional needs is competency-based curriculum. Due to its unique characteristics, competency-based curriculum has been noticed recently by educational systems of various countries especially in medical education. Given the imp...

One specialty's collaborative approach to competency-based curriculum development.

The authors describe a seven-step consensus development process used to create the two most recent editions of the Academic Pediatric Association's (APA's) educational guidelines for pediatric residency. The 1996 (printed) and 2004 (online) editions of the guidelines were designed as flexible tools to help residency programs meet changing accreditation requirements by providing lists of goals a...