Competency-Based Education - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Pretraining on Southwestern stations decreases training time and cost for proficiency-based fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training.

9 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: We previously reported a proficiency-based Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) curriculum that uniformly resulted in passing the technical skills certification criteria. We hypothesized that pretraining using the Southwestern (SW) ... Read more...

Evaluation of the use of an interactive, online resource for competency-based curriculum development.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To evaluate pediatric educators' use of and satisfaction with the Academic Pediatric Association's Educational Guidelines for Pediatric Residency. METHOD: The authors used customized programming to document all registered users and ... Read more...

British surgeons' experiences of mandatory online workplace-based assessment.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVES: An online workplace-based assessment tool, the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP), has become mandatory for all British surgical trainees appointed since August 2007. A compulsory pound125 annual trainee fee has also ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Competency-Based Education - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pretraining on Southwestern stations decreases training time and cost for proficiency-based fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training. 9 Sep 2009
• Evaluation of the use of an interactive, online resource for competency-based curriculum development. 30 Aug 2009
• Curricula proposals aim to bolster scientific competency. 2 Aug 2009
• British surgeons' experiences of mandatory online workplace-based assessment. 29 Jun 2009
• The case for cases: a pedagogy for developing habits of thought. 30 May 2009
• Student experiences with competency domains during a psychiatry clerkship. 29 Apr 2009
• Mastery learning of temporary hemodialysis catheter insertion by nephrology fellows using simulation technology and deliberate practice. 17 Apr 2009
• Internal medicine's Educational Innovations Project: improving health care and learning. 30 Mar 2009
• Unison or cacophony: postgraduate training in pathology in Europe. Mar 2009
• Innovation in family medicine residency training. 27 Feb 2009
• The national disaster life support programs: a model for competency-based standardized and locally relevant training. 27 Feb 2009
• Introducing information literacy into anesthesia curricula. 25 Feb 2009
• Simulation in plastic surgery training and education: the path forward. 30 Jan 2009
• Teaching massage to nursing students of geriatrics through active learning. 28 Jan 2009
• A case study for teaching information literacy skills. 27 Jan 2009
• Evaluation of the redesign of an undergraduate cell biology course. 30 Dec 2008
• Assessment in the Foundation Programme: a qualitative study of consultants and junior doctors in the South West of England. 30 Dec 2008
• Supporting students writing for community-based learning. 30 Dec 2008
• Assessment of spatial anatomical knowledge with a 'three-dimensional multiple choice test' (3D-MC). 30 Dec 2008
• Evaluating training for a simulated team in complex whole procedure simulations in the endovascular suite. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Competency-Based Education'

Definition: Educational programs designed to ensure that students attain prespecified levels of competence in a given field or training activity. Emphasis is on achievement or specified objectives.

Descriptor UI: D003162

Alternative terms: Competency-Based Education; Competency Based Education; Education, Competency-Based; Competency-Based Educations; Education, Competency Based; Educations, Competency-Based;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.158.210;

History Note: 91(79); was see under CURRICULUM 1979-90