Outcome-focused, competency-based educational curricula have become the norm in residency training programs. The Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) framework is one example of such a curriculum. However, models for incorporating all the competencies in everyday clinical practice have been difficult to accomplish. In this manuscript, a CanMEDS, competency-structured,...

Despite the over 62 years of Naturopathy’s existence in Ghanaian jurisdiction, no single tertiary program Naturopathy or Complementary and Alternative Medicine is taught. The practice has not been streamlined properly structured. Those who engage Naturopathic trade mostly receive their education through correspondence from unrecognized unaccredited foreign schools that teach a limited aspect na...

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has endorsed the recommendation from the Section of Teachers’ Working Group on Postgraduate Curriculum Review that residency training programs develop and implement a competency-based curriculum that is • comprehensive, • focused on continuity of education and patient care, and • centred in family medicine. Together, these recommendations form t...

This article is part of a series describing the key elements of the Triple C Competency-based Curriculum.1-6 It highlights how different frameworks introduced by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) can be used to design and implement residency programs, and teach and assess family medicine residents. The overarching viewpoint from which to understand these frameworks and their con...

background: the success of faculty members of medical sciences universities in medical education arena requires qualification and capabilities authentication in relation with education.  in order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. one of the appropriate approaches is “competency based training” (cbt). in this method, competencies...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which U.S. dental hygiene programs are incorporating cultural competency education into the dental hygiene curriculum and to identify associated program characteristics. METHODS A 19 item survey was electronically administered to all 334 U.S. dental hygiene program directors. The questionnaire solicited information on teaching a...