The transition from residency education that emphasizes counts and hours to competency assessment is a major change for Family Medicine. Starting July 1, 2023, it will affect all program directors, faculty, residents. How should our community support this change? Keeping in mind the “why”

During the past few years, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education has aimed to change the model of physician residency training to a competency-based system. The adoption of a competency-based training system is now required, and residency programs are expected to define and evaluate the achievement of competency. In an effort to facilitate this endeavor, the Anne E. Dyson Comm...

The notion of competence and learner model is the kernel of the Competency-Based Approach (CBA). However, as of today there is not a commonly learner model or ontology for competencies, we have presented in this paper our ontology-based representation in order to define the CBA. This representation provides a baseline for an e-learning adaptive system in which we plan to implement individual le...