Competency-based Education: From Knowing, to Knowing How, to Showing, to Doing

2024-01-09

In this epidose, we speak with Denise H. Rhoney - Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy - and Zubin Austin - Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto - about Competency-based Education (CBE). There is a movement afoot to transform health professions education to de-emphasize time and focus on a core set of competencies. However, defining the competencies, creating authentic assessments, and dismantling "...

In this epidose, we speak with Denise H. Rhoney - Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy - and Zubin Austin - Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto - about Competency-based Education (CBE). There is a movement afoot to transform health professions education to de-emphasize time and focus on a core set of competencies. However, defining the competencies, creating authentic assessments, and dismantling "courses" to ensure curricular alignment are major challenges to turning the promise of CBE into a reality. Is it worth it? Or is CBE just another pedagogical methodology du jour?

Introductions and Fika Sharing from 0:00 to 2:36
Our conversation about competency-based education starts at 2:36

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Resources

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Caverzagie KJ, Nousianinen MT, Ferguson PC, et al. Overarching challenges to the implementation of competency-based education. Med Teach 2017; 39 (6): 588-593.

Daughterty KK, Chen A, Churchwell MD, et al. Competency-based pharmacy education definition. What components need to be defined to implement it? Am J Pharm Educ. Article in Press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpe.2023.100624

Chen AMH, Kelppinger KL, Churchwell MD, et al. Examing competency-based education through the lens of implementation science: A scoping review. Am J Pharm Educ. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpe.2023.100633

Austin Z, Andriole DA, Rhoney DH. Is it time for competency-based education to move forward in pharmacy education? Am J Pharm Educ 2023; 87 (10): Articles 100550.

Rhoney DH, Chen AMH, Churchwell MD, et al. Recommendations and next steps for competency-based education. Am J Pharm Educ 2023; 87 (10): Article 100549.

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