Canadian journal of kidney health and disease
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Can J Kidney Health Dis · Jan 2018
Introduction of Competence by Design to Canadian Nephrology Postgraduate Training.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with its Competence by Design initiative, is adopting the principles of competency-based medical education for residency training and continuing professional development. This initiative is being undertaken to meet the new standards of medical education in Canada, which include social accountability to meet performance-based outcomes of training. Nephrology is poised to implement Competence by Design into residency training in July 2018 and initiate a continuous quality improvement cycle to periodically renew and update the training requirements to be socially accountable and relevant in the modern age of medicine. The purpose of this review is to describe the process of entrustable professional activity and required training experience development and how they will affect subspecialty training in Canada. ⋯ Competence by Design in nephrology is an outcomes-based curriculum and assessment platform that aims to train nephrologists to meet societal expectations in an ever-changing and complicated health care system. The goals are to increase safety and professional accountability to society and improve upon the already high standards of training within Canada.