Enhancing Internal Medicine Residents’ Royal College Exam Competency Using In-Training Written Exams within a Competency Based Medical Education Framework

Competency-based education and training in internal medicine.

Recent efforts to improve medical education include adopting a new framework based on 6 broad competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In this article, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force II examines the advantages and challenges of a competency-based educational framework for medical residents. Efforts to refine spe...

TOWARD A DEFINITION COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION IN NURSING: CRITICAL REVIEW OF EVIDENCE

Background & Aims: In recent years the issues surrounding competency-based education (CBE) increased attention and debate among health professionals and the international conferences and pilot projects proposed by a growing number of many of the issues of education magazines Medical critically examined. Because it had not been provided in nursing competency-based framework, providing a comprehe...

Enhancing residents’ neonatal resuscitation competency through unannounced simulation-based training

BACKGROUND Almost half of pediatric third-year residents surveyed in 2000 had never led a resuscitation event. With increasing restrictions on residency work hours and a decline in patient volume in some hospitals, there is potential for fewer opportunities. PURPOSE Our primary purpose was to test the hypothesis that an unannounced mock resuscitation in a high-fidelity in-situ simulation trai...

defining a competency framework: the first step toward competency-based medical education.

despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to respond to their local situations. this article reports the process of developing medical graduates' competency framework as the first step in the curriculum reform in tehran univ...

Residents prepare for switch to competency-based medical education.