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Medical Education & Training

The Question of Competence

Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Brian D. Hodges & Lorelei Lingard

foreword by M. Brownell Anderson

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Education & Training, Higher
Recommended Age
18
Recommended Grade
12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780801479502
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $47.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780801450495
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $76.95

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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 in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of competence itself and attend to how it has shaped what we pay attention to?and what we ignore?in the education and assessment of medical trainees.

Two leading figures in the field of medical education, Brian D. Hodges and Lorelei Lingard, drew together colleagues from the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands to explore competency from different perspectives, in order to spark thoughtful discussion and debate on the subject. The critical analyses included in the book's chapters cover the role of emotion, the implications of teamwork, interprofessional frameworks, the construction of expertise, new directions for assessment, models of self-regulation, and the concept of mindful practice. The authors juxtapose the idea of competence with other highly valued ideas in medical education such as emotion, cognition and teamwork, drawing new insights about their intersections and implications for one another.

About the authors

Brian D. Hodges is executive vice president of education and chief medical officer of the University Health Network and professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

Parts of the text... present a long-needed critical view of various aspects of competency-based education and evaluation.... [L]et us hope that everyone involved in conceptualizing and enacting competence-based education and evaluation has a chance to read this book.

Academic Psychiatry