Assessing medical student competence in non-traditional domains can be challenging.
Conventional methods of assessment are generally unsatisfactory. The authors discuss the …

Professional behaviour, being one of the domains of professionalism, is an area of medical
education that has long been of concern to medical educators. At Hacettepe University, our …

There will be no two opinions if I say that a health care practitioner has to be competent to
provide health care and should also provide it with compassion. In all societies, the general …

This paper presents perspectives and controversies surrounding the use of milestones to
assess competency in outcomes-based medical education. Global perspectives (Canada …

Context Reliability is defined as the extent to which a result reflects all possible
measurements of the same construct. It is an essential measurement characteristic …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify essential profession-related competencies,
clinical knowledge and skills that medical students should develop in the early stages of …

Competency-based education in the health care professions has become a prominent
approach to postgraduate training in Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the …

Professional values and behaviours are intrinsic to all medical practice yet remain one of the
most difficult subjects to integrate explicitly into a curriculum. Professionalism in the twenty …

Introduction. In a traditional curriculum, medical students are expected to acquire clinical
competence through the apprenticeship model using the Halstedian'see one, do one, and …

Abstract Brown Medical School embarked on planning a competency-based curriculum in
1989. The curriculum was fully implemented in 1996, effective for the MD class of 2000. To …