Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Continuing the competency debate: reflections on definitions and discourses

  • Response
  • Published:
Advances in Health Sciences Education Aims and scope Submit manuscript

The Original Article was published on 19 September 2012

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bryden, P., Ginsburg, S., Kurabi, B., & Ahmed, N. (2010). Professing professionalism: Are we our own worst enemy? Faculty members’ experiences of teaching and evaluating professionalism in medical education at one school. Academic Medicine, 85(6), 1025–1034.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chou, S., Cole, G., McLaughlin, K., & Lockyer, J. (2008). CanMEDS evaluation in Canadian postgraduate training programmes: Tools used and programme director satisfaction. Medical Education, 42(9), 879–886.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coburn, D. (1993). State authority, medical dominance and trends in the regulation of health professions: The Ontario case. Social Science and Medicine, 37(7), 841–850.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coburn, D., Rappolt, S., & Bourgeault, I. (1997). Decline vs. retention of medical power through rest ratification: An examination of the Ontario case. Sociology of Health & Illness, 19(1), 1–22.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eva K and Hodges BD. (2012) Dialogue on the future of assessment, Medical Education (in Press).

  • FMEC. (2010). The future of medical education in Canada. Ottawa: The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (1972). The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Trans: Sheridan Smith A. M.,). New York: Pantheon Books.

  • Foucault, M. (1999). Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (Trans: Hurley and others R.,). New York: The New York Press.

  • Frank, J. (Ed.). (2005). The CanMEDS 2005 physician competency framework. Better standard. Better Physicians. Better Care. Ottawa: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodges BD. (2012) The shifting discourses of competence, in the question of competence: Reconsidering medical education in the twenty-first century. In: Brian D. Hodges and Lorelei Lingard, Foreword by M. Brownwell Anderson, Cornell University Press: Ithaca.

  • Kuper, A., & D’Eon, M. (2011). Rethinking the basis of medical knowledge. Medical Education, 45(1), 36–43.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuper, A., Reeves, S., Albert, M., & Hodges, B. D. (2007). Assessment: Do we need to broaden our methodological horizons? Medical Education, 41(12), 1121–1123.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Neufeld, V. R., Maudsley, R. F., Pickering, R. J., Walters, B. C., Turnbull, J. M., Spasoff, R. A., et al. (1993). Demand-side medical education: Educating future physicians for ontario. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 148(9), 1471–1477.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parent, F., Baulana, R., Kahombo, G., Coppieters, Y., Garant, M., & De Ketele, J. M. (2011). A Comprehensive competence-based approach in curriculum development: Experiences from African and European contexts. Health Education Journal, 7(3), 301–317.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Parent, F., Jouquan, J., De Ketele, J.M. (2012). CanMEDS and other “competency and outcome-based approaches” in medical education: clarifying the ongoing Ambiguity. Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice DOI 10.1007/s10459-012-9402-z.

  • Reeves, S., Fox, A., & Hodges, B. D. (2009). The competency movement in the health professions: Ensuring consistent standards or reproducing conventional domains of practice? Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice, 14(4), 451–453.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • van der Vleuten, C. P. M., Schuwirth, L. W. T., Scheele, F., Driessen, E. W., & Hodges, B. D. (2010). The assessment of professional competence: Building blocks for theory development. Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 24(6), 703–719.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Verma, S., Paterson, M., & Medves, J. (2006). Core competencies for health care professionals: What medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy share. Journal of Allied Heatlh, 35(2), 109–115.

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitehead, C. R., Austin, Z., & Hodges, B. D. (2011). Flower power: The armoured expert in the CanMEDS competency framework? Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice, 16(5), 681–694. doi:10.1007/s10459-011-9277-4.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 500 University Ave., 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7, Canada

    C. R. Whitehead

  2. Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Z. Austin

  3. Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    B. D. Hodges

  4. Women’s College Hospital/CACE, Toronto, ON, Canada

    C. R. Whitehead

  5. Wilson Centre for Research in Education, University Health Network/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    C. R. Whitehead

  6. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    B. D. Hodges

  7. Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    B. D. Hodges

Authors
  1. C. R. Whitehead
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Z. Austin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. B. D. Hodges
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to C. R. Whitehead.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Whitehead, C.R., Austin, Z. & Hodges, B.D. Continuing the competency debate: reflections on definitions and discourses. Adv in Health Sci Educ 18, 123–127 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-012-9407-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-012-9407-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation