The question of competence : reconsidering medical education in the twenty-first century /

Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters...

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Other Authors: Hodges, Brian David, 1964-, Lingard, Lorelei
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, ©2012.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Table of Contents:
  • The shifting discourses of competence / Brian D. Hodges
  • Rethinking competence in the context of teamwork / Lorelei Lingard
  • Perturbations : the central role of emotional competence in medical training / Nancy McNaughton and Vicki LeBlanc
  • Competence as expertise : exploring constructions of knowledge in expert practice / Maria Mylopoulos
  • Assessing competence : extending the approaches to reliability / Lambert W.T. Schuwirth and Cees P.M. van der Vleuten
  • Blinded by "insight" : self-assessment and its role in performance improvement / Kevin W. Eva, Glenn Regehr and Larry D. Gruppen
  • The competent mind : beyond cognition / Annie S.O. Leung, Carol-Anne E. Moulton and Ronald M. Epstein.