Enabling competencies specify the behaviours, skills and attitudes that learners must demonstrate to reach the Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) competencies.
By way of example, Table 1 depicts competencies mapped to the global health problem of managing maternal obstructed labor, formulated within the 10 competency domains specified by the Indiana University School of Medicine [ 19].
Across pre-service FP teaching programs with FP competencies implied or specified, the targets were similar regardless of the level of the educational program.
Tasks then undergo a rigorous process of analysis to ensure they foster development of the specified competencies; this is done by using a rubric that measures the degree to which the tasks integrate knowledge and reasoning strategies across disciplinary boundaries (Svoboda Gouvea et al., 2013).
Over a decade ago, the IOM specified competency-based objectives for environmental medicine education (IOM 1995).
One Fortune 500 company that we are working with developed a leadership competency model that specifies 54 distinct competencies across 15 different leadership skills.
They also open new perspectives in medical education, focusing on the patient's perspective which is a core competency for Family Practice, as specified in the WONCA Family Practice competencies [ 9].
While many employers request college transcripts, particularly for entry-level positions, transcripts are used for degree verification, not to specify competencies or skills that match the employer's needs.
This is in spite of the Foundation Programme Curriculum specifying competencies in CPGs and EBM that must be achieved in order to satisfactorily complete the 2-year programme [ 24].
Program participants found that standard content-focused assessments were insufficient to measure student learning gains specified in their competency-based approaches and that end-of-unit summative tests did not accommodate real-time assessment students need in support of their learning.
Harris personally concludes: "I do not believe that the creators possessed the technical or commercial competencies necessary to deliver the Zano as specified in the original campaign".
