ArticlePerspectives on medical education2023
"Dismantling Fixed Time, Variable Outcome Education: Abandoning 'Ready or Not, Here they Come' is Overdue".
Article in Perspectives on medical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- No Free Lunch in Competency-Based Health Professions Education: Exploring Trade-Offs, Value, and Shared Investment in Health Professions Education.Perspectives on medical education · 2026Article
- When Accelerated MD Program Is Not the Right Path: The Why and How to Support Accelerated Learners in the Transition to the 4-Year Program.Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Competency-based and less time-bound: a new approach to the macro-structure of a medical school curriculum.Medical education online · 2024Article
- The Next Era of Assessment: Building a Trustworthy Assessment System.Perspectives on medical education · 2024Article
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Abstract
Two decades after competency-based medical education appeared in the lexicon of medical educators, the community continues to struggle with realizing its full potential. The implementation of the time variable, fixed outcome component has languished based on complexity compounded by resistance to change. Learners continue to transition from medical school to residency, and then practice, primarily based on time rather than having achieved the ability to meet the needs of the patient populations they will serve. Only those few who demonstrate glaring deficiencies do not graduate. The authors urge the medical education community to move from the current fixed time path of medical education toward the implementation of a true continuum of time variable, fixed outcome education, training, and
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