title: Competency-based residency training in pathology: challenges and opportunities.
abstract: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is requiring that all medical specialties adopt a new paradigm for residency education: competency-based residency education. Competency-based education includes not only the acquisition of knowledge and the demonstration of safe medical practice, but also competency in practice-based learning, practice improvement, interpersonal skills and communication, professionalism, and an awareness of pathology's role in a larger health care system. Implementation of this new training program will require new educational resources and the implementation of new faculty and resident skills and incentives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Folberg
authors.forename: Donald A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Antonioli
authors.forename: C Bruce
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D003406:Credentialing; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards