Abstract
Although competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. In 2009 in the United Arab Emirates, the government regulatory and operational authorities for healthcare in Abu Dhabi mandated a wide-scale reform of the emirate’s postgraduate residency programs to the competency-based framework of the newly formed Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-International (ACGME-I). This article briefly describes the rationale for competency-based medical education and provides an overview of the transition from traditional, time-based residency training to competency-based postgraduate medical education for the Pediatrics residency programs in Abu Dhabi. We will provide data on the initial impact of this transition on resident performance and patient outcomes in a Pediatrics residency program in an academic medical center in the United Arab Emirates.
Highlights
Competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training
Regulatory bodies worldwide, including the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in the United States, the General Medical Council (GMC) in the United Kingdom, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), have responded by developing national educational change initiatives grounded in competency-based medical education (CBME)
* Correspondence: hibrahi4@jhu.edu 1Tawam Hospital, Department of Academic Affairs, 15258, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2Johns Hopkins Graduate School of Education, Baltimore, MD, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article competencies of the US-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education- International (ACGME-I)
Summary
Competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. * Correspondence: hibrahi4@jhu.edu 1Tawam Hospital, Department of Academic Affairs, 15258, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2Johns Hopkins Graduate School of Education, Baltimore, MD, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article competencies of the US-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education- International (ACGME-I).
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