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ArticlePerspectives on medical education2026

Assessment Fit for (More Than One) Purpose? Reconciling the Dual Purposes of Assessments in Competency-Based Health Professions Education.

Michael S Ryan, Aleda M H Chen, Heather Nichol, Sören Huwendiek, Denyse Richardson, Benjamin Kinnear, Warren J Cheung, Claire Touchie, Fremen Chihchen Chou, David A Turner and 2 more

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Article in Perspectives on medical education, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Michael S RyanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-9289
Aleda M H ChenUniversity of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-8260
Heather NicholDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5514-6993
Sören HuwendiekDepartment for Assessment and Evaluation, Institute for Medical Education, University of Bern, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-9633
Denyse RichardsonDepartment of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6113-158X
Benjamin KinnearDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-4130
Warren J CheungDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2730-8190
Claire TouchieCentre for Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7926-9720
Fremen Chihchen ChouSchool of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7932-5056
David A TurnerInnovation and Competency-Based Education, American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0957-1382
Anna OswaldDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-4294
As members of the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborative

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessments serve several purposes in competency-based medical education (CBME) and competency-based health professions education (CBHPE) programs. These purposes are commonly termed 'assessment

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Competency-Based EducationEducational MeasurementHealth OccupationsClinical CompetenceHumans

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PMID42825186
PMCPMC13629541

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