The realization that medical graduates are failing to serve the health needs of the society has compelled the medical educationists and regulatory authorities worldwide to review the medical training. A medical curriculum ...

This is a critical-reflexive exercise about the process of medical education based on competencies, dialoguing with narrative review about the evolution of medical education in Brazil, under the view of a sixth-year ...

Background: Few medical teaching institutions provide faculty development in curriculum development to program directors of medical specialties (PD), despite the increased demand for renewal of residency programs and the ...

Despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. Different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to ...

The career of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile was established from the beginning (1929), with a classical Flexner curriculum design. In seven years, the career is divided in three cycles: basic ...

Competency-based education is a form of designing, developing, delivering and documenting instruction based on a set of objectives and results that have been recommended for medical education. This article describes the ...

This paper aims to discuss the directions of pharmaceutical education based on the new curriculum guidelines from MEC (Ministry of Education - Brazil). In the recent past, Brazilian pharmaceutical faculties prioritized the ...

At present, competency-based curriculum is considered to be the most appropriate model in medical education. Much has been written about this model; however, a crucial aspect of the model is the assessment of competency ...