title: What does a clinical competency curriculum look like?
abstract: This article describes how a competency-based curriculum is implemented at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. A competency-based curriculum can be implemented in either a traditional discipline-oriented curriculum or an integrated, case-based curriculum. Restructuring learning activities, assuring adequate numbers of faculty, and training faculty to assess competencies are essential for success. Schools of veterinary medicine must ensure that their graduates possess a wide range of abilities, in additional to scientific knowledge, if they are to practice successfully. A competency-based curriculum is the best means to do so.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. stephen_r_smith@brown.edu
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004520:Education, Veterinary / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D012237:Rhode Island; D018634:Veterinarians