It is common for Australian university academics to be critical of competency-based education systems. The values that underpin a competency-based approach and those on which traditional university education have been based are often seen to be at odds. A focus on the development of prescribed workplace skills is seen by many academics to be inconsistent with a focus on the general development ...

Although competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. In 2009 in the United Arab Emirates, the government regulatory and operational authorities for healthcare in Abu Dhabi mandated a wide-scale reform of the emirate's postgraduate residency programs to the competency-base...

Competency-based curriculum has become widely accepted in health professional education as a way to define the knowledge, skill and attitudinal outcomes expected of the prelicensure learner. Experts in the field of competency-based education define ‘‘competency’’ as an integrated set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and judgments that enable one to effectively perform the activities of a given o...

Competency-based Education (CBE) is an educational model that allows students to learn and demonstrate their abilities at their own pace. CBE is growing in popularity in undergraduate educational programs and its role in pharmacy education in the United States (US) is under review. In comparison, medical education is utilizing competency-based approaches (such as competencies and Entrustable Pr...

Background: Curriculum design and development are among the key components of medical education. Today, the dominant approach to curriculum planning is the competency-based approach. However, despite the emphasis posed by the medical education scientific community on this approach, medical education in both undergraduate and graduate levels in Iran continues to be delivered traditionally. As it...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...