Outcome based or competency based education (OBE) is so firmly established in
undergraduate medical education that it might not seem necessary to ask why it was …

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

Although medical education has enjoyed many successes over the last century, there is a
recognition that health care is too often unsafe and of poor quality. Errors in diagnosis and …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 49–57 Context In response to historical trends in expectations
of doctors, the goals of medical education are increasingly framed in terms of global …

In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in competency-based education
(CBE), the notion that an expert physician is defined by a broad set of identified …

Background Over the last two decades, competency‐based frameworks have been
internationally adopted as the primary educational approach in medicine. Yet competency …

Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional
associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are …

Purpose Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) has become a dominant idea in both medical
education and clinical care as reflected in its incorporation into competency-based …

Context While medical curricula were traditionally almost entirely comprised of bioscientific
knowledge, widely accepted competency frameworks now make clear that physicians must …

The shift to using outcomes-based competency frameworks in medical education in many
countries around the world requires educators to find ways to assess multiple competencies …