Medicine: A Competency-Based Companion

Companion to Neonatal Medicine

THIS short book is one of a series of three volumes summarizing the principles of obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatal medicine. It is essentially a book of lists written by two doctors: "a medical adviser to a major pharmaceutical company," and "a physiological laboratory worker" respectively. The authors and their colleagues are said to have conceived this book during their 'shop-floor' exper...

Competency-based evaluation tools for integrative medicine training in family medicine residency: a pilot study

BACKGROUND As more integrative medicine educational content is integrated into conventional family medicine teaching, the need for effective evaluation strategies grows. Through the Integrative Family Medicine program, a six site pilot program of a four year residency training model combining integrative medicine and family medicine training, we have developed and tested a set of competency-bas...

Competency-based education and training in internal medicine.

Recent efforts to improve medical education include adopting a new framework based on 6 broad competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In this article, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force II examines the advantages and challenges of a competency-based educational framework for medical residents. Efforts to refine spe...

The Oxford Companion to Medicine

Defining competency-based evaluation objectives in family medicine: professionalism.

OBJECTIVE To develop and describe observable evaluation objectives for assessing competence in professionalism, which are grounded in the experience of practising physicians. DESIGN Modified nominal group technique. SETTING The College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont. PARTICIPANTS An expert group of 7 family physicians and 1 educational consultant, all of whom had exper...