Competency-based education in the health professions: Implications for improving global health
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Improvements in global health can only be realized through the development of a workforce that has been educated to promote health and to care for those with disease. Increased attention is being placed on competency-based education as a means for optimizing the preparation of health professionals. The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of competency-based education (CBE) and how this can be distinguished from the more traditional approaches to training health professionals. An approach to the implementation of CBE will be reviewed along with a discussion on implications for resource poor regions of the world.
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