"The projects in our 'real projects' programme are designed with subject content at their heart," she says, "and with an eye to the level of competence students are expected to achieve.
Furthermore, such a test structure might offer more information about the level of competence students actually acquire and concrete starting points for developing support measures to improve their learning process.
Nevertheless, studies on workplace based education show that next to practical competence; students need to establish a sense of professional identity that includes confidence and motivation [ 13].
For each competence, students were asked to assess, on a Likert-type scale of 1 to 4 (easily... not at all), their degree of mastery before ("I was able to... ..........) and after ("I am able to... ..........) the master's programme.
The inventory for assessing the process of cultural competence-student version (IAPCC-SV) was used to assess change in students' cultural competence and is a validated questionnaire.
Instruments used for data collection included the Inventory for Assessing The Process of Cultural Competence-Student Version (IAPCC-SV) by Campinha-Bacote, course evaluations, students' feedback, and portfolio reflections.
With the 2006 enacting of the European Framework of Key Competences, the European Union puts emphasis on the new transversal competences students should have, like learning to learn and the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
As presented in Table 3, this competence inventory offers for each CanMEDS role a number of actively formulated competences students have to achieve at the workplace.
To achieve these skills and competences, students need to move from acquiring the disciplinary theory, neatly ordered in textbooks and lectures, to reading primary articles and engaging in the actual scientific discourse.
The wide and international introduction of the CanMEDS Roles Framework in medical education, shows how valuable they are for outlining the competences students have to achieve to become good doctors.
Another benefit is that it prepares and ensures the competence of student nurses, leading to improved patient safety outcomes.
