title: Competency-based medical education and scholarship: Creating an active academic culture during residency.
abstract: The competency-based medical education movement has been adopted in several medical education systems across the world. This has the potential to result in a more active involvement of residents in the educational process, inasmuch as scholarship is regarded as a major area of competency. Substantial scholarly activities are well within the reach of motivated residents, especially when faculty members provide sufficient mentoring. These academically empowered residents have the advantage of early experience in the areas of scholarly discovery, integration, application, and teaching. Herein, the authors review the importance of instituting the germinal stages of scholarly productivity in the creation of an active scholarly culture during residency. Clear and consistent institutional and departmental strategies to promote scholarly development during residency are highly encouraged.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Consultation-Liaison Service, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th Street, ON L8N 3K7, Hamilton, Canada. ahategan@stjosham.on.ca.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hategan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA.|School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
authors.forename: Amin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azzam
keywords: Competency; Life-long learning; Medical education; Scholar role