Teaching Risk Management: Addressing ACGME Core Competencies

ACGME core competencies: Who knows what and does it matter?

The ACGME core competencies: a national survey of family medicine program directors.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Beginning in July 2002, all residencies were required to show that their residents were obtaining competency in six core areas defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). METHODS In 2003, we surveyed all 444 family medicine program directors regarding the ACGME Core Competencies and how programs evaluated them. RESULTS A total of 28...

Commentary: core competencies and the training of psychiatric residents in therapeutic risk management.

The treatment of patients who, due to their clinical presentation, pose potential liability risks to the psychiatrist is one of the more stressful aspects of modern psychiatric practice. The need to educate psychiatric residents about the principles of risk management that guide the safe provision of good patient care in such patients is paramount in the current malpractice environment. In this...

Core Competencies in Suicide Risk Assessment and Management: Implications for Supervision

The recent publication of core competencies in suicide risk assessment and management (Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2006) and the American Psychiatric Association’s (2003) practice guidelines have raised concerns about how best to address these issues in clinical supervision of trainees. This article reviews the identified core competencies, addresses implications for supervision of trai...

Competencies in Science Teaching

• The role of competencies is discussed with respect to science teaching. In particular, competence models from Germany, Switzerland and Austria are presented and compared. A special topical program, ‘Competencies in Mathematics and Science Teaching’, was started in Austria three years ago. Initial experiences with this program are reported, specifically with regard to how the teachers adopt th...