Towards a shared mental model of progressive competence in postgraduate medical education

Authors

  • Eric Prost Queen's University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.43389

Keywords:

Competency-Based Medical Education, residency training, postgraduate medicine, stages of training

Abstract

Many professions have hierarchies and a promotion structure. Postgraduate medicine has a tradition of promoting residents based on time spent in a certain specialty. The military, too, may promote its personnel based on factors other than just merit. Both professions have been criticized for divorcing competence from promotion. While Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) partly solves this problem in medicine, many models of CBME, including the Canadian one, retain distinct stages of training. We urgently need a shared mental model of what a learner in each stage looks like. Some models have been proposed but fall short.

Author Biography

  • Eric Prost, Queen's University

    Assistant Professor and CBME Lead,

    Department of Psychiatry,

    Queen's University.

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Published

2018-07-29

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Letters to the Editor

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Towards a shared mental model of progressive competence in postgraduate medical education. Can. Med. Ed. J [Internet]. 2018 Jul. 29 [cited 2025 Dec. 14];9(3):e115-118. Available from: https://dev.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/43389