Revisiting ‘Assessing professional competence: from methods to programmes’

Revisiting 'Assessing professional competence: from methods to programmes'.

Editor’s note: As part of our 50th volume celebrations, Medical Education is looking back at its most impactful articles, as defined by citation count. The most cited articles from each 5-year interval were identified and the original authors of one of them (or other knowledgeable scholars if the original authors could not be found) were asked to comment on the state of the field at the time of...

Defining and assessing professional competence.

CONTEXT Current assessment formats for physicians and trainees reliably test core knowledge and basic skills. However, they may underemphasize some important domains of professional medical practice, including interpersonal skills, lifelong learning, professionalism, and integration of core knowledge into clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To propose a definition of professional competence, to rev...

Assessing Competence to Consent to

Burdened with the responsibility of making an initial assessment of their patients' capacity to make treatment decisions, clinicians need a sound clinical assessment model. Drawing on ethical, legal, and clinical sources, the author reviews the appropriateness of existing models and standards and describes why each fails the needs of the clinician. The patient's ability to form a therapeutic al...

Assessing Professional Competence by Using Occupational Judgment Tests Derived From Job Analysis Questionnaires

Maintaining Professional Competence : Approaches to Career