Postgraduate medical education is an essential societal enterprise that prepares highly skilled
physicians for the health workforce. In recent years, PGME systems have been criticized …

Purpose Direct observation is essential to assess and provide feedback to medical trainees.
However, calls for its increased use in medical training persist as learners report that direct …

Background In 2018, Canadian postgraduate emergency medicine (EM) programs began
implementing a competency-based medical education (CBME) assessment program. Studies …

Background delirium is common in older emergency department (ED) patients, but vastly
under-recognised, in part due to lack of standardised screening processes. Understanding …

Coaching is an increasingly popular means to provide individualized, learner-centered,
developmental guidance to trainees in competency based medical education (CBME) curricula. …

Program evaluation is an essential, but often neglected, activity in any transformational
educational change. Competence by Design was a large-scale change initiative to implement a …

Competence committees (CCs) are a recent innovation to improve assessment decision-making
in health professions education. CCs enable a group of trained, dedicated educators to …

Checklist was created to assist emergency physicians in Canada and elsewhere manage
patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with acute/recentonset atrial …

Purpose This study evaluated the fidelity of competence committee (CC) implementation in
Canadian postgraduate specialist training programs during the transition to competency-…

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contraindications see the ‘McMaster Checklist’• If CHADS-65 positive (any of age≥ 65, …