Abstract
The true adoption of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) should allow for information about individual learners to be fed forward from Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) to Graduate Medical Education (GME). An obstetrics and gynecology residency preparation elective for senior medical students was utilized to create a milestone-based educational handover that reported individual learner performance for 25 of the 28 level one milestones. The authors describe the process and the questions that arose about the implications of reporting competency-based information for learners of all levels. The authors posit that CBME will be a transformative shift only if barriers of communication can be broken down between UME and GME.
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Morgan, H., Skinner, B., Marzano, D. et al. Bridging the Continuum: Lessons Learned from Creating a Competency-Based Educational Handover in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Med.Sci.Educ. 26, 443–447 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-016-0266-3
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