Competency-based Medical Education (CBME)

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AAMC: competency-based medical education is an outcomes-based approach to the design, implementation, and evaluation of education programs and to the assessment of learners across the continuum that uses competencies or observable abilities.

The goal of CBME is to ensure that all learners achieve the desired patient-centered outcomes during their training.

Resident Doctors of Canada: Some of these changes have already been implemented, or their development is currently underway nationally.

For example, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has already transitioned Family Medicine programs in Canada to a competency-based curriculum called the CFPC - CanMEDS-FM Triple C (3C) Competency-based Curriculum. There are 3 components of Triple C: Comprehensive education and patient care; Continuity of education and patient care; and, Centred in family medicine.

In addition, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) is in the process adopting an outcomes-based approach to the design, implementation, assessment, and evaluation of medical education programs known as RCPSC - CanMEDS Competency by Design (CBD).