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Introducing the new Office of Indigenous Health
July 21, 2023
| Author: Admin
2 MIN READ
The world is watching Canada
Both within Canada and across the world, there is a movement towards realigning medical education with a competency-based approach. For specialists training in Canada, this new system is called Competence by Design — a hybrid between time and competency-based systems. In a world that is constantly changing, you belong to an organization that continues to set the highest standards for cutting-edge specialty training.
Canada’s new postgraduate medical educational model outlines four stages of training, each of which have specific entrustable professional activities (EPAs) — basically, skills you should master as you progress. The stages are progressively set out as Transition to Discipline, Core, Foundations and Transition to Practice, and movement between stages is deliberate, providing a concrete framework on what a resident should be achieving in each stage. However, it’s not all about tick-boxes. With this new model comes a culture shift towards increased direct observation, coaching assessments geared towards promotion of learning, and learner-driven education. Learning rotations continue to take place in a variety of settings, including community hospitals and clinics. These frequent points of contact with mentors are also ensuring that if deficiencies do exist, they are identified early, allowing Fellows and supervisors to execute learning plans to fill these gaps in a structured way.
And you have a role to play as all disciplines convert to CBD.
The world is watching Canada
Both within Canada and across the world, there is a movement towards realigning medical education with a competency-based approach. For specialists training in Canada, this new system is called Competence by Design — a hybrid between time and competency-based systems. In a world that is constantly changing, you belong to an organization that continues to set the highest standards for cutting-edge specialty training.
Canada’s new postgraduate medical educational model outlines four stages of training, each of which have specific entrustable professional activities (EPAs) — basically, skills you should master as you progress. The stages are progressively set out as Transition to Discipline, Core, Foundations and Transition to Practice, and movement between stages is deliberate, providing a concrete framework on what a resident should be achieving in each stage. However, it’s not all about tick-boxes. With this new model comes a culture shift towards increased direct observation, coaching assessments geared towards promotion of learning, and learner-driven education. Learning rotations continue to take place in a variety of settings, including community hospitals and clinics. These frequent points of contact with mentors are also ensuring that if deficiencies do exist, they are identified early, allowing Fellows and supervisors to execute learning plans to fill these gaps in a structured way.
And you have a role to play as all disciplines convert to CBD.