The framework guided the development of subsequent enabling competencies.
Enabling competencies specify the behaviours, skills and attitudes that learners must demonstrate to reach the Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) competencies.
The following descriptions align global health competencies with CanMEDS-Family Medicine roles and provide a context for enabling competencies.
In our view, a comprehensive module on EBM should address both the key and the enabling competencies.
The competencies include five key competencies that mirror the five steps of EBM, as well as certain enabling competencies - basic concepts like epidemiology and biostatistics, that students need to understand before they can practice EBM.
We identified essential EBM competencies, drawing on the CanMeds model [ 23], which contains within one of its domains (scholar), enabling competencies that resonated with our understanding of the steps of EBM.
The purpose of this initiative was to develop an explicit and comprehensive Global Health education framework and to identify enabling competencies to guide curriculum for all Ontario Family Medicine postgraduate training programs.
The framework was used as a guide to develop enabling competencies for global health for Canadian Family Medicine and these were based on the structure of CanMEDS -Family Medicine roles (a framework that adapts the specialist core competency model) [ 18, 19] (See Table 1 for steps used to develop this systematic framework).
Enabling competencies, which are a sub-set of competencies needed to achieve the key competencies, include the basic understanding of epidemiology and biostatistics, basic searching skills and the philosophy of critical enquiry.
California Connects is a state-level program administered by the Foundation for California Community Colleges that seeks to advance digital opportunity for underserved communities by promoting and enabling digital competency.
Indeed, defining a discipline's values, goals and priorities is an implicit part of defining competencies, which enables the competencies to communicate these values and expectations to various stakeholders within and outside the discipline.
