To address this, we implemented a competency-based training using virtual classrooms in two general nurse midwives (GNM) schools of Bihar.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), in line with many specialist colleges, is moving to implement a competency based training program.
The move to implement a competency-based curriculum has come about for several reasons.
The RANZCP will be implementing a competency-based program from 2013, with some pilot studies being carried out in 2012.
GAPS provided a forum for discussion of the opportunities and challenges that are associated with implementing a competency-based curriculum, with an attempt to discuss specific FP competencies.
Therefore, we examined the influence of implementing a competency-based curriculum on medical students' knowledge acquisition, clinical performance and perceived preparedness for medical practice.
The evaluations indicate that designing and implementing a competency-based assessment programme poses quite a challenge and demands intensive preparation and perseverance.
This partly reflected the lack of a national strategy for FP teaching and the failure to adapt and implement a competency-based national qualification system for FP, which has been instrumental in improving pre-service FP teaching in other countries [ 11].
It was designed in terms of the following objectives "see Additional file 1": i) educational objectives (e.g., developing and implementing a competency-based education program (CBE); ii) professional objectives (e.g., revitalizing the midwives association); iii) sociopolitical, legal objectives (e.g., setting-up marketing activities).
7 Since 2009, Taipei VGH has aggressively implemented a 'Clinical Instructor Competencies' faculty development programme and sought to boost the skills of clinical instructors teaching competencies that target PGY1 residents.
In response to participants' interest in gaining mentorship competencies, CCGHR implemented a facilitators-in-training (FIT) initiative in 2007 where, each year, two alumni became facilitators for new participants in a subsequent SI, with mentoring by a more senior facilitator.
