The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is becoming more widely used for performance assessment in dentistry. The department of pediatric dentistry at Baylor College of Dentistry (BCD) began incorporating the OSCE into its curriculum in 1995. This article describes the evolution of the department's use of the OSCE and its impact on teaching and the curriculum. The discussion focuse...

This paper’s focus is on the characteristics of successful competence-based curriculum development. First, a brief outline is given of the conceptual basis of CBE and the development of competence-based curricula. Attention is paid to the role of generic competencies in academic competence-based curricula, especially to what constitute ‘academic competencies’. In developing countries many highe...

OBJECTIVE To identify competency strengths and weaknesses as perceived by nursing professionals who graduated with a integrated curriculum and competency-based through Problem Based Learning in small groups. METHOD An intrinsic case study method was used, which analyzes this innovation through former students (from the first class) with three years of professional experience. The data were co...

Resident surgical skills’ training is about to undergo a fundamental change from what has been practiced before. It has been determined that surgical education is going to shift from a time-based training paradigm (5-year general surgery residency program) to a criterion-based model with an emphasis on obtaining and maintaining competency. The structure of the new paradigm will feature several ...

objectives: clinical competencies are learning outcomes the student should display by the end of the program and competency based instruction measures what participants have learned as opposed to what instructors think they have thought. objective of this study was to compare student and faculty perceptions of the importance and achievement of clinical competencies in rehabilitation programs. m...

Although it is important to assess the effectiveness of programs, courses, and teaching methods to ensure that goals are being achieved, it is very difficult to evaluate the impact of fundamental changes in a whole curriculum. This paper reviews measures that have been used in the past in dentistry and medicine for evaluating academic programs: curriculum guidelines; competency documents; discu...