Team performance is increasingly recognised as an essential foundation of good surgical
care and a determinant of good surgical outcome. To understand team performance and to …

Purpose To demonstrate a methodology for coding and taxonomy development and to
operationally define residents' competence in systems-based practice (SBP) in terms of …

Background Around the world, regulatory bodies have taken the lead in determining the
competencies required to become a physician. As a first step in addressing this project, it …

Background The physicians' competency is an important public health issue around the
world. Several international organizations have taken the lead in examining the …

Background With an increasing caseload of veterinary neurology patients in first opinion
practice, there is a requirement to establish relevant learning objectives for veterinary …

In many parts of the world the practice of medicine and medical education increasingly focus
on providing patient care within context of the larger healthcare system. Our purpose is to …

Methods This study included 167 undergraduate medical students and 142 faculty members
from different curricula at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine …

Background A re-assessment of competencies and therefore learning outcomes for higher
specialist training in occupational medicine (OM) is being undertaken. Although peer …

Introducción: La formación de profesionales en el área de la medicina, está inmersa en los
procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje-evaluación que dependen del modelo pedagógico …

Following a series of serious misdemeanours by British doctors, the General Medical
Council (GMC) has introduced a system of re-licensing called 'revalidation'. Annual medical …