Method Medline, ERIC, and the Research and Development Resource Base in Continuing
Medical Education were used to search for articles focused on physicians' competence …

Objective This paper aims to describe current views of the relationship between competence
and performance and to delineate some of the implications of the distinctions between the …

The specialty of research in medical education began just over three decades ago with a
small group of clinicians and educational researchers at the medical school in Buffalo, New …

Background Like all professions medicine is granted professional autonomy by society
under the assumption that its practitioners will be deemed competent on entry into practice …

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, in collaboration with the Universities of
Calgary and Alberta, has developed a program to routinely assess the performance of …

Hospitalists provide a significant amount of direct clinical care in both academic and
community hospitals. Peer feedback is a potentially underutilized and low resource method …

Background If continuing professional development is to work and be sensible, an
understanding of clinical practice is needed, based on the daily experiences of doctors …

BACKGROUND As the average age of surgeons continues to rise, determining when a
surgeon should retire is an important public safety concern. AIM To investigate strategies …

Background Modernization of medical regulation has included the introduction of the
Professional Performance Procedures by the UK General Medical Council in 1995. The …

Peer-assessment processes with chart review have been used for many years to assess the
clinical performance of physicians. The Quebec medical licensing authority has been …