The problem with competency based medical training

The competency based approach to undergraduate and postgraduate medical training consists of analysing occupational roles, translating these roles into outcomes, and assessing trainees on the basis of the performance of these outcomes. Leung (p 693) explores the origins and the development of the approach and evaluates its current role in medical training, warning that it should not be introduced universally. Diwaker (p 695) writes that Leung's misgivings about competency based education represent one end of a spectrum of views.


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Competency based medical training: review • Commentary: The baby is thrown out with the bathwater
Wai-Ching Leung and Vin Diwakar
BMJ 2002 325: 693-696. [Full Text] [PDF]

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