Competencies: from deconstruction to reconstruction and back again, lessons learned.

• Autores: David C Leach
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 98, Nº. 9, 2008, págs. 1562-1564
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I address the potential impact of the Association of Schools of Public Health's development of a competency model for the graduate Master of Public Health. I reflect on the model in relation to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's adoption of a competency-based model for medical education. Six lessons learned by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that the Association of Schools of Public Health might consider in moving forward are how learning outcomes can be enhanced by using competency models, the effect of competency development processes in "creating a common language" among educators, the benefits and challenges of numerous competencies within a model, the usefulness of the Dreyfus model for progressive competency development, the need for multiple assessment tools used over time, and the value of learning portfolios.;