Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 68: Competency-Based Curriculum Development in Medical Education

By William C. Mcgaghie

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Title:	Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 68: Competency-Based Curriculum Development in Medical Education
Author:	William C. Mcgaghie
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago C. Mcgaghi, B. W. (n.d.). Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 68. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. CURRICULUMMO DELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Subject-centered curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Integrated curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Competency-based curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2 . IDENTIFYINTGHE ELEMENTS OF COMPETENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 General considerations in defining competence . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Analysis of physicians' activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Self-reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Task analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Critical elements of behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Critical incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Expertjudgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Health care needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Public health statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Medicalrecords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Social. economic. and political realities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Professional performance situation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3 . LEMATNGFO R MASTERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Programme organization : time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Programme organization : sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Programme organization : mastery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Specification of learning objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Identification of curriculum clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Development of instructional units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Encouragement of self-pacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Recognition of competence levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Frequent assessment of learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4 . ASSESSMENOTF COMPETENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Entry assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Formative assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Summative assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75