Canadian physicians were trained in a time-based system, moving from one monthly
rotation to another. However, medical education is rapidly transforming into an outcomes …

Competency based training describes progression through training referenced to the
demonstrated ability to perform certain tasks. In recent years, this has become the dominant …

Perspect Med Educ (2015) 4: 323–325 DOI 10.1007/s40037-015-0232-6 erately cater your
education to these end objectives. Many countries in the world have developed consensus …

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) Robert Maynard Hutchins was an educational
philosopher, Dean of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and …

Physician competencies have increasingly been a focus of medical education at all levels.
Although competencies are not a new concept, when the Accreditation Council for Graduate …

In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in competency-based education
(CBE), the notion that an expert physician is defined by a broad set of identified …

Louise Samson, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,
recently wrote about a planned revision of the entire medical education curriculum at the …

Competency-based medical education has taken root in many countries. In the United
States, the six general competencies (Box 1) were formally approved by the Accreditation …

The introduction of competency-based postgraduate medical training, as recently stimulated
by national governing bodies in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The …

Abstract The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) adopted a
plan to transform, over a seven-year horizon (2014-2021), residency education across all …