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MANUSCRIPT: Programmatic assessment of competency-based workplace learning: when theory meets practice

Background In competency-based medical education emphasis has shifted towards outcomes, capabilities, and learner-centeredness. Together with a focus on sustained evidence of professional competence this calls for new methods of teaching and assessment. Recently, medical educators advocates the use of a holistic, programmatic approach towards assessment. Besides maximum facilitation of learning it

Posted on 13 Sep 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Learning Models & Theory, Manuscript, Medical Education, Resources

MANUSCRIPT: Workplace learning

Abstract This critical review found Dutch research to be strong at the undergraduate and residency levels and more or less absent in continuing medical education. It confirms the importance of coaching medical students, giving constructive feedback, and ensuring practice environments are conducive to learning though it has proved hard to improve them. Residents learn primarily