Purpose Integrating basic science and clinical concepts in the undergraduate medical
curriculum is an important challenge for medical education. The health professions education …

The shift to using outcomes-based competency frameworks in medical education in many
countries around the world requires educators to find ways to assess multiple competencies. …

Health professions education (HPE) is built on a structural foundation of modernity based on
Eurocentric epistemologies. This foundation privileges certain forms of evidence and ways …

Context Interprofessional education ( IPE ) aspires to enable collaborative practice. Current
IPE offerings, although rapidly proliferating, lack evidence of efficacy and theoretical …

Competency frameworks based on roles definitions are currently being used extensively in
health professions education internationally. One of the most successful and widely used …

As part of the Philosophy of Science series of Invited Commentaries, this article on critical
theory describes the origins of this research paradigm and its key concepts and orientations (…

Interprofessional education (IPE) is an increasingly popular educational model that aims to
educate health care students to be better collaborators by enabling them to learn with, from, …

Medical educators aim to train physicians with sound scientific knowledge, expert clinical
skills and an ability to work effectively with patients, colleagues and health systems. Over the …

Background Over the last two decades, competency‐based frameworks have been
internationally adopted as the primary educational approach in medicine. Yet competency‐based …

Context While medical curricula were traditionally almost entirely comprised of bioscientific
knowledge, widely accepted competency frameworks now make clear that physicians must …