CBME
Our renewed MD curriculum will support adaptive learning as the foundation of our competency-based medical education (CBME) model. This means assessing for competence - not grades. Our CBME curriculum will deliver socially accountable, generalist physicians who, as health care professionals, meet the vision of being clinicians, scholars, and leaders ready to enter any residency program and serve the health care needs of Canada in the twenty-first century.
Goals of the curricular renewal include: (1) improving patient care using an outcomes-based curriculum; (2) aligning with CBME in Canada at the postgraduate level; (3) ensuring learners demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to meet the needs of Canadian patients and communities, regionally and nationally; and, (4) preparing learners for the continuum of life-long learning.
Progression in the new CBME curriculum for UME will reflect a similar model in PGME CBME;
- Formative Assessment for Learning
- Summative Assessment of Learning
- Assessment of Competence
Progression will be decided by a central committee - The Program Competence Committee. The Competence Committee will be composed of faculty, staff and learners independent of the MD Program leadership providing an objective lens for student achievements. This will include such strategies as: students to complete satisfactorily >80% of formative assessments, achieve ≥70% on the end-of-course summative exam and be progressing satisfactorily on achievements of the curricular competencies and the EPAs. Progression will no longer be by marks, but by demonstrating achievement and competence.
CBME Psychiatry Lead: Dr. Jonathan Gregory
Email: Jonathan.Gregory@lhsc.on.ca
