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01.07.2016 | Editorials
Competency-based medical education: Its time has arrived
verfasst von:
Mark F. Levine, MBBCh, George Shorten, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 7/2016
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Excerpt
In 2015, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada launched “Competence By Design” (CBD), a multi-year initiative designed to transform residency training in Canada using the principles of competency-based medical education (CBME). Departments of anesthesia in Canadian universities will be implementing a CBD curriculum with the cohort of new residents starting in July 2017. As described in this issue of the
Journal, the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Ottawa enrolled its first cohort of residents into an innovative competency-based program in July 2015.
1 Many department chairs, clinicians, funding agencies, and other stakeholders may ask why we should change the way we’ve been training physicians for the past 100 years. They well recognize that we already turn out the most highly educated physicians in history and would be hard pressed to show that most are not competent.
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