Each new rotation requires unique medical knowledge and a set of skills, which often highlights students' deficiencies more than their progress and competencies [ 8].
The e-Portfolio, a personal collection of electronic evidence of career progression maintained by each junior doctor, is used as a multi-functional tool by the trainees to document progress against competencies, to reflect upon learning experiences, and to document abilities and achievements.
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We decided to divide our relatively large national sample into four groups to describe the progress of competency.
Embedding assessments within games provides a way to monitor players' progress toward targeted competencies and to use that information to support learning.
In measuring student progress in building competencies, we are using an array of qualitative and quantitative approaches to provide a multidimensional representation of student learning, as recommended by the NRC (2012).
Although progression from medical education to clinical practice differs from country to country, in general junior doctors will spend a year or more after completing medical school as interns or foundation doctors in teaching hospitals developing and demonstrating their clinical competencies before progressing to specialist residency training.
The identified outcomes gradually progress from application-based competencies up to more advanced process modeling ones based on knowledge synthesis and creation.
Although 4 weeks may be preferable for exposing students to the widest variety of patients and procedures, all students can benefit and progress in the core competencies.
Regarding the administration of complex care procedures parents view their competency as progressing to expertise.
The intern end of rotation assessment is 'high stakes', however the concept of pass/fail is not used, the intern is assessed as having made satisfactory, borderline or unsatisfactory progress in acquiring intern competencies.
