Building a competency-based curriculum: The agony and the ecstasy

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-454

  Albanese, Mark A ^a   Mejicano, George ^a   Anderson, W Marshall ^b   Gruppen, Larry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NORTHWEST   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competency based curriculum; Curriculum change

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; STANDARD; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHYSICIANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956872273     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-008-9118-2     Document Type: Article

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