Background The conceptualisation of medical competence is central to its use in
competency‐based medical education. Calls for 'fixed standards' with 'flexible pathways' …

Postgraduate medical education is an essential societal enterprise that prepares highly
skilled physicians for the health workforce. In recent years, PGME systems have been …

Residents and faculty have described a burden of assessment related to the implementation
of competency-based medical education (CBME), which may undermine its benefits …

With the rise of competency-based medical education and workplace-based assessment
(WBA) since the turn of the century, much has been written about methods of assessment …

Program evaluation is an essential, but often neglected, activity in any transformational
educational change. Competence by Design was a large-scale change initiative to …

Competence committees (CCs) are a recent innovation to improve assessment decision-
making in health professions education. CCs enable a group of trained, dedicated educators …

High-value care is what patients deserve and what healthcare professionals should deliver.
However, it is not what happens much of the time. Quality improvement master Dr. Don …

Neonatal neurocritical care (NNCC) has emerged as an important specialty to address
neurological conditions affecting newborns including a wide spectrum of brain injuries and …

Assessment in medical education has evolved through a sequence of eras each centering
on distinct views and values. These eras include measurement (eg, knowledge exams …

Background Core to competency-based medical education (CBME) is the use of frequent
low-stakes workplace-based assessments. In the Canadian context, these observations of …