From residency training to professional life: which competencies and skills are most valued by haematologists in Brazil?

Abstract

Since the end of the last century, outcomes of medical education have been systematised in conceptual frameworks describing the most important competencies for physicians. These frameworks were constructed considering the evolving picture of health-care provision, which shifted to a patient-centred perspective and faces emerging challenges such as the pace of scientific innovation, heterogenous access to health care, and expectations for more effective and humane care. Although using different languages and schemes, these frameworks share the common premise that medical knowledge and skills that used to be intuitively associated with medical care are not sufficient to deliver these goals to society, and thus need to be complemented by non-clinical competencies, such as being capable of critical and continuous learning, effective communication with patients, ethical and humane practice, and understanding and using health-care systems to improve care and advocate for patients.