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      <Title language="en">Competency-Based Postgraduate Medical Education: Past, Present and Future</Title>
      <TitleTranslated language="de">Kompetenzbasierte postgraduale medizinische Weiterbildung: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft </TitleTranslated>
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          <Firstname>Olle</Firstname>
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        <Address language="en">University Medical Center Utrecht, Center for Research and Development of Education, P.O. Box &#35; 85500, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands, Phone: &#43;31.88.75.57010, Fax: &#43;31.88.75.53409<Affiliation>University Medical Center Utrecht, Center for Research and Development of Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands</Affiliation></Address>
        <Address language="de">Universit&#228;t Utrecht, Medizinisches Zentrum, P.O. Box &#35; 85500, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, Niederlande, Tel.: &#43;31.88.75.57010, Fax: &#43;31.88.75.53409<Affiliation>Universit&#228;t Utrecht, Medizinisches Zentrum, Utrecht, Niederlande</Affiliation></Address>
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      <Keyword language="en">Competency-based medical education (CBME)</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="en">competency</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="en">competence</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="en">CanMEDS</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="en">entrustable professional activities</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="en">milestones</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="de">kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="de">Kompetenz</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="de">CanMEDS</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="de">anvertraubare professionelle T&#228;tigkeiten</Keyword>
      <Keyword language="de">Meilensteine</Keyword>
      <SectionHeading language="en">Competences</SectionHeading>
      <SectionHeading language="de">Kompetenzen</SectionHeading>
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    <DateReceived>20161106</DateReceived>
    <DateRevised>20170206</DateRevised>
    <DateAccepted>20170215</DateAccepted>
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        <ISSN>2366-5017</ISSN>
        <Volume>34</Volume>
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        <JournalTitle>GMS Journal for Medical Education</JournalTitle>
        <JournalTitleAbbr>GMS J Med Educ</JournalTitleAbbr>
        <IssueTitle>Postgraduate education/Weiterbildung</IssueTitle>
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    <Abstract language="de" linked="yes"><Pgraph>Seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die kompetenzbasierte medizinische Weiterbildung (Competency-Based Medical Education, CBME) zum dominanten p&#228;dagogischen Ansatz in der medizinischen Ausbildung vieler L&#228;nder geworden. Mit einer Geschichte, die ein halbes Jahrhundert zur&#252;ckgeht, ist die CBME in p&#228;dagogischen Ans&#228;tzen wie ergebnisorientierter Ausbildung und &#8222;Mastery Learning&#8220; verwurzelt. Trotz der Kontroversen um die Terminologie und den CBME-Ansatz haben wichtige nationale medizinische Aufsichtsbeh&#246;rden in Kanada, den Vereinigten Staaten und in anderen L&#228;ndern eine Bereitschaft f&#252;r CBME gezeigt. CBME kann durch zwei deutliche Merkmale charakterisiert werden: durch einen Fokus auf spezifische Kompetenzbereiche und durch eine relative Unabh&#228;ngigkeit vom Zeitpunkt innerhalb der Ausbildung; so wird CBME zu einem individualisierten Ansatz, der besonders beim Lernen am Arbeitsplatz anwendbar ist. Es ist nicht die L&#228;nge der Ausbildung, die das Bereitsein des Einzelnen f&#252;r nicht supervidierte Praxis bestimmt, sondern die gewonnene Kompetenz oder die gewonnenen Kompetenzen. Diese Schwerpunktverlagerung unterscheidet CBME von der traditionellen Ausbildung. In diesem Beitrag werden Definitionen von CBME und verwandten Konzepten ausgef&#252;hrt. </Pgraph></Abstract>
    <Abstract language="en" linked="yes"><Pgraph>Since the turn of the twenty-first century, competency-based medical education (CBME) has become a dominant approach to postgraduate medical education in many countries. CBME has a history dating back half a century and is rooted in general educational approaches such as outcome-based education and mastery learning. Despite controversies around the terminology and the CBME approach, important national medical regulatory bodies in Canada, the United States, and other countries have embraced CBME. CBME can be characterized as having two distinct features: a focus on specific domains of competence, and a relative independence of time in training, making it an individualized approach that is particularly applicable in workplace training. It is not the length of training that determines a person&#8217;s readiness for unsupervised practice, but the attained competence or competencies. This shift in focus makes CBME different from traditional training. In this contribution, definitions of CBME and related concepts are detailed.</Pgraph></Abstract>
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      <MainHeadline>Introduction</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Competency-based medical education (CBME) or training (CBMT) has become widely used terminology since the turn of the twenty-first century. Despite its ubiquitous use, there is variation in the use of the terminology and related concepts. In this entry a brief historical overview of the concept is provided, followed by a focus on a clear justification and definition of CBME, competence, competency, and closely related concepts. </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Einleitung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Die kompetenzbasierte medizinische Weiterbildung (CBME) oder das kompetenzbasierte medizinische Training (CBMT) sind seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhundert zu einer weit verbreiteten Terminologie geworden. Trotz ihrer umfassenden Nutzung gibt es eine Variabilit&#228;t in der Verwendung der Terminologie und in verwandten Konzepten. In diesem Beitrag wird ein kurzer historischer &#220;berblick &#252;ber das Konzept gegeben, gefolgt von einem Schwerpunkt auf einer klaren Rechtfertigung und Definition von CBME, Kompetenz, Kompetenzen und  eng verwandten Konzepten.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>History</MainHeadline><Pgraph>In 1949, long before the term &#8220;competency-based&#8221; education was being used in medical or other areas of education, educational psychologist Ralph Tyler sowed its first seeds in what has become known as the &#8220;Tyler rationale&#8221; <TextLink reference="1"></TextLink>. He posed four powerful questions any education institution should address: </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">What purposes should a school seek to attain&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">What educational experien&#172;ces can be provided to attain these purposes&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="3" numString="3.">How can these be organized&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="4" numString="4.">How can one determine whether these purposes are being attained&#63; </ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>This outcome-based thinking of education differed from education practice before. Since then, many educationalists have expanded on his ideas, most prominently Benjamin Bloom, whose <Mark2>taxonomy of educational objectives</Mark2>, including a cognitive (knowledge), a psychomotor (manual skills), and an affective (attitudes) domain, has dominated most of the world&#8217;s thinking of educational objectives <TextLink reference="2"></TextLink>. The significance of these contributions was that education became more systematically focused on predefined outcomes than on evolved tradition. In 1963 Carroll observed that, given equivalent learning time, students with different aptitudes diverge in their learning performance; some do not attain the required performance goal <TextLink reference="3"></TextLink>. To avoid variable outcome of education, he said, each learner must be allowed the learning time he or she needs to attain a specific learning goal. This view revolutionized the educational thinking by recognizing that a similar mastery of skills requires flexibility and individualization. The focus on outcomes led to approaches such as Bloom&#8217;s &#8220;personalized systems of instruction&#8221; and &#8220;mastery learning&#8221; to ensure that as many students in a class as possible meet a required learning criterion <TextLink reference="4"></TextLink>. Several studies have illustrated its success and in many countries the relationship between education and future workplaces became tighter <TextLink reference="5"></TextLink>. Vocational education and training became more an instrument of economic forces, as influential people outside education started formulating aims and content for it, to ensure that workers would be productive. The vast technological and scientific changes and globalization since the 1980s, with education lagging behind, led schools to introduce <Mark2>employment competencies</Mark2>, justified by the wish to increase levels of skills and flexibility to serve a competitive economy. At the university level these reforms were not always welcomed, as it was feared that a heavier weight of industry needs could hamper general academic education. The very nature of liberal arts &#8211; the freedom of academic development &#8211; is not really compatible with the strong utilitarian nature of industry-determined outcomes. </Pgraph><SubHeadline2>Competency-based medical education</SubHeadline2><Pgraph>Before the massive expansion of postgraduate training, Case Western Reserve University&#8217;s medical school in Cleveland, Ohio was among the first to recognize, as early as the 1950s, that the content of medical training would be more efficiently delivered if focused on clinical relevance, next to the systematic, scientific foundations of individual disciplines. With Ralph Tyler as a consultant, this school integrated pre-clinical courses with clinically relevant objectives, to make the transition from theory to practice more natural <TextLink reference="6"></TextLink>. It was a first step toward outcome-based medical education, the precursor of competency-based medical education. This outcome direction was adopted by numerous schools, particularly in the Western world, from the 1960s until the present day <TextLink reference="7"></TextLink>. </Pgraph><Pgraph>Medical education and teacher education &#8211; on one hand both academic disciplines, and on the other hand both directed toward a professional vocation &#8211; were among the first to advocate competency-based education. An excellent early description of competency-based medical education was coined by McGaghie and colleagues in 1978. The authors distinguish CBME from subject-oriented and integrated curricula by </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">its organization around <Mark2>functions required for the practice</Mark2> of medicine in a specified setting, </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">the conviction that <Mark2>all medical students can master</Mark2> the basic performance objectives, and </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="3" numString="3.">the justification that learning and learning processes <Mark2>can then be empirically tested</Mark2>. </ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>&#8220;The intended outcome &#91;of CBME&#93; is a health-professional who can practice medicine at a defined level of proficiency, in accord with local conditions, to meet local needs&#8221; <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><SubHeadline2>Competency-based postgraduate medical education</SubHeadline2><Pgraph>As competency-based medical education is outcome-based, a focus of CBME on postgraduate training has been dominant. In western countries, unsupervised practice of healthcare, the dominant outcome of the training of physicians, is almost exclusively the prerogative of medical specialists after postgraduate training, which now includes primary care.   </Pgraph><Pgraph>Competency-based (postgraduate) medical education is now a widely used terminology, especially after the introduction of the <Mark2>CanMEDS</Mark2> framework (Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists) project in the 1990s <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>, followed by the Outcome Project of the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the USA) <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="11"></TextLink>. The CBME movement has met with criticism, part of which can be attributed to varying interpretations of what it is, and part to the way it is being applied <TextLink reference="12"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="13"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="14"></TextLink>.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Geschichte</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Im Jahr 1949, lange bevor der Begriff &#8220;kompetenzbasiert&#8221; in der Medizin oder in anderen Bereichen der Ausbildung Verwendung fand, schuf der Erziehungspsychologe Ralph Tyler die Grundlagen f&#252;r das, was inzwischen als das &#8222;Tyler-Prinzip&#8220; bekannt wurde <TextLink reference="1"></TextLink>. Er stellte vier wichtige Fragen, die jede Bildungseinrichtung besch&#228;ftigen sollten: </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">Welche Erziehungszwecke sollte eine Schule anstreben&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">Welche Bildungserfahrungen k&#246;nnen dabei vorgehalten werden um diese Zwecke zu erreichen&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="3" numString="3.">Wie k&#246;nnen diese organisiert werden&#63; </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="4" numString="4.">Wie kann man feststellen, ob diese Zwecke erf&#252;llt werden&#63; </ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>Dieses ergebnisorientierte Denken in der Ausbildung unterschied sich von der vorhergehenden Bildungspraxis. Seitdem haben viele P&#228;dagogen seine Ideen erweitert, am prominentesten Benjamin Bloom, dessen <Mark2>Taxonomie der Ausbildungsziele</Mark2>, einschlie&#223;lich einer kognitiven (Wissen), einer psychomotorischen (Fertigkeiten) und einer affektiven (Haltungen) Dom&#228;ne, weitgehend das weltweite Denken &#252;ber Lernziele dominiert hat <TextLink reference="2"></TextLink>. Die Bedeutung dieser Beitr&#228;ge war, dass die Ausbildung sich systematischer auf vordefinierte Ergebnisse fokussierte als auf gewachsene Tradition. Im Jahr 1963 stellte Carroll fest, dass bei gleicher Lernzeit Studierende mit unterschiedlicher Begabung Unterschiede in ihrer Lernleistung aufweisen; manche erreichen das geforderte Leistungsziel nicht <TextLink reference="3"></TextLink>. Um unterschiedliche Resultate der Ausbildung zu vermeiden, sagte er, solle jedem Lernenden die jeweils ben&#246;tigte Lernzeit gegeben werden, die er oder sie ben&#246;tige, um ein spezifisches Lernziel zu erreichen. Diese Ansicht, zu erkennen, dass die gleiche Beherrschung von Fertigkeiten Flexibilit&#228;t und Individualisierung erfordert, hat das p&#228;dagogische Denken grundlegend ver&#228;ndert. Der Fokus auf Ziele f&#252;hrte zu Ans&#228;tzen wie Blooms &#8222;personalisiertes System der Unterweisung&#8220; und &#8222;Mastery Learning&#8220;, um sicherzustellen, dass m&#246;glichst viele Studierende in einer Gruppe die geforderten Lernkriterien erf&#252;llen <TextLink reference="4"></TextLink>. Mehrere Studien haben den Erfolg dieses Vorgehens verdeutlicht und in vielen L&#228;ndern wurde die Beziehung zwischen Ausbildung und zuk&#252;nftigen Arbeitspl&#228;tzen enger <TextLink reference="5"></TextLink>. Als einflussreiche Personen au&#223;erhalb des Bildungswesens begannen, Ziele und Inhalte hierf&#252;r zu formulieren, entwickelte sich die berufliche Bildung und Weiterbildung mehr zum Instrument der wirtschaftlichen Kr&#228;fte, um die Produktivit&#228;t der Arbeitenden zu gew&#228;hrleisten. Die umfangreichen technologischen und wissenschaftlichen Ver&#228;nderungen und die Globalisierung seit den achtziger Jahren, hinter denen die Ausbildung her hinkte, bewogen Schulen dazu, <Mark2>Kompetenzen f&#252;r die Berufst&#228;tigkeit</Mark2> einzuf&#252;hren. Begr&#252;ndet wurde dies durch den Wunsch, das F&#228;higkeits- und Flexibilit&#228;tsniveau zu steigern, um eine Grundlage f&#252;r eine wettbewerbsf&#228;hige Wirtschaft zu schaffen. Auf universit&#228;rer Ebene waren diese Reformen nicht immer willkommen, da bef&#252;rchtet wurde, dass das gr&#246;&#223;ere Gewicht der gewerblichen Bed&#252;rfnisse die allgemeine akademische Ausbildung behindern k&#246;nnte. Eben jenes Wesen der freien K&#252;nste &#8211; die Freiheit der akademischen Entwicklung &#8211; ist nicht wirklich mit dem starken utilitaristischen Charakter industriebedingter Ergebnisse vereinbar.</Pgraph><SubHeadline2>Kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung </SubHeadline2><Pgraph>Bereits in den 1950er Jahren war die medizinische Fakult&#228;t der Case Western Reserve Universit&#228;t in Cleveland, Ohio, eine der ersten, die erkannte, dass der Ausbildungsinhalt effizienter vermittelt w&#228;re, wenn er sich neben den systematischen, wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der individuellen Disziplinen auf die klinische Relevanz fokussierte. Mit Ralph Tyler als Berater integrierte diese Hochschule vorklinische Kurse mit klinisch relevanten Lernzielen ins Studium, um den &#220;bergang von der Theorie in die Praxis nat&#252;rlicher zu gestalten <TextLink reference="6"></TextLink>. Es war ein erster Schritt zur <Mark2>ergebnisorientierten</Mark2> medizinischen Ausbildung, der Vorl&#228;ufer der kompetenzbasierten medizinischen Ausbildung. Von den 1960ern bis heute wurde diese ergebnisorientierte Richtung von zahlreichen Hochschulen vor allem in der westlichen Welt &#252;bernommen <TextLink reference="7"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Die medizinische Ausbildung und die Lehrerbildung  &#8211; einerseits akademische Disziplinen und andererseits auf einen Beruf ausgerichtet &#8211; waren unter den ersten, die eine kompetenzbasierte Ausbildung einsetzten. Eine hervorragende fr&#252;he Beschreibung der kompetenzbasierten Ausbildung wurde 1978 von McGaghie und Kollegen gepr&#228;gt. Die Autoren unterscheiden CBME von themenorientierten und integrierten Curricula durch </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">ihre Organisation um <Mark2>erforderliche Funktionen herum, die f&#252;r die Aus&#252;bung</Mark2> der &#228;rztlichen T&#228;tigkeit in einem spezifischen Umfeld n&#246;tig sind, </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">die &#220;berzeugung, dass <Mark2>alle Medizinstudierenden</Mark2> die praktischen Basislernziele <Mark2>meistern k&#246;nnen</Mark2> und </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="3" numString="3.">die Begr&#252;ndung, dass das Lernen und die Lernprozesse dann <Mark2>empirisch getestet werden k&#246;nnen</Mark2>. </ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>&#8222;Das intendierte Ergebnis &#91;von CBME&#93; ist &#228;rztliches Personal, das den Arztberuf auf einem definierten Leistungsniveau nach orts&#252;blichen Anforderungen aus&#252;ben kann, um den lokalen Bedarf zu bedienen&#8220; <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><SubHeadline2>Kompetenzbasierte postgraduale medizinische Ausbildung</SubHeadline2><Pgraph>Da kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung ergebnisorientiert ist, ist der CBME-Fokus schwerpunkthaft auf postgradualer Weiterbildung  gewesen. In westlichen L&#228;ndern ist unsupervidiertes praktisches Arbeiten in der Gesundheitsversorgung, das vorherrschende Ergebnis der Ausbildung von &#196;rzten, fast ausschlie&#223;lich das Vorrecht der Fach&#228;rzte nach der postgradualen Weiterbildung, die nun die Prim&#228;rversorgung umfasst.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Kompetenzbasierte (postgraduale) medizinische Weiterbildung ist jetzt eine weit verbreitete Terminologie, besonders nach der Einf&#252;hrung des <Mark2>CanM</Mark2>EDS-Rahmenwerkprojektes (Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists) in den 1990ern <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>, gefolgt von dem Ergebnisprojekt der ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the USA) <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="11"></TextLink>. Die CBME-Bewegung ist auf Kritik gesto&#223;en, was teilweise auf die unterschiedlichen Auslegungen, was sie ist, zur&#252;ckzuf&#252;hren ist und teilweise auf die Art und Weise, wie sie angewendet werden <TextLink reference="12"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="13"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="14"></TextLink>.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Definitions</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Many authors have attempted to clarify the &#8220;fuzzy&#8221; concepts of competence and competency. Multidimensional typologies of competence have been described, one of which distinguishes a conceptual&#8211;operational axis versus a personal&#8211;occupational axis. Medical competence would be situated primarily in the functional quadrant of this general typology, being both operational and occupational. But many other dimensions have been discussed extensively in the literature, such as context-free versus context-specific, knowledge versus capability, behavior versus ability, learnable versus unchangeable, performance-oriented versus development-oriented.</Pgraph><Pgraph>The medical education community has also defined competence in many different ways <TextLink reference="15"></TextLink>. A recent authoritative definition captures what the majority of medical educators would probably agree with: &#8220;The habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served&#8221; <TextLink reference="16"></TextLink>. This definition aims to comprehensively encompass all elements of professional medical functioning and should be used as a singular noun without article (i.e., not a competence). Following this definition, &#8220;competences,&#8221; in the plural, is not useful terminology. As &#8220;competencies&#8221; is considered linguistically synonymous to &#8220;competences&#8221; <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>, we shall use &#8220;competencies&#8221; as the word for parts that together constitute the full spectrum of medical competence.</Pgraph><Pgraph>The word &#8220;competency,&#8221; formulated most literally as &#8220;the ability to do something successfully or efficiently&#8221; <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>, has led to confusion among educators. As competency-based education did not always lived up to its promise, the concept has been redefined often. The Educational Council of the Netherlands proposed a useful literature-derived definition of competency that includes six features: a competency is <Mark2>specific, integrative, durable, focused on performance, learnable</Mark2>, and <Mark2>competencies are mutually dependent</Mark2> <TextLink reference="18"></TextLink>. This accords with a more recent definition by Albanese and colleagues, who add that competencies should reflect external expectations and should lead to <Mark2>behavior that is measurable using absolute standards</Mark2>, that is, independent of other learners <TextLink reference="19"></TextLink>. Other authors have stressed that the ability to act successfully is to some extent context dependent. A person can possess a competency in one context, for example during the day in a well-equipped hospital, but not in a different context, for example during the night in a remote rural area with little medical support. If the ability to perform well in the full scope of the medical profession equates with &#8220;medical competence,&#8221; then <Mark2>a medical competency</Mark2> can thus be defined as a l<Mark2>earnable, durable, and measurable ability to execute a specific, integrative task that is a part of the full range of tasks that constitute the medical profession. It is a generalized ability that may vary somewhat, depending on the context</Mark2>. Following this definition, neither the general entities of the CanMEDS framework nor those of the ACGME framework should be called &#8220;competencies.&#8221; The seven CanMEDs units are rightfully designated as &#8220;roles&#8221; (medical expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, scholar, health advocate, professional) <TextLink reference="20"></TextLink>, in contrast with the six ACGME descriptors (patient care, medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, practice-based learning and improvement, system-based practice, professionalism), which have initially been named &#8220;core competencies&#8221; <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>. If &#8220;competence&#8221; is the broad quality of the physician as defined by Epstein and Hundert, then such general elements of competency frameworks are best designated as <Mark2>&#8220;domains of competence&#8221;.</Mark2> Domains of competence are broad entities that include multiple competencies. For example, the domain of patient care would include competencies such as the ability to &#8220;gather information about the patient,&#8221; &#8220;perform an accurate physical examination,&#8221; and &#8220;develop and carry out a management plan.&#8221; This terminology has been supported by Englander and colleagues <TextLink reference="21"></TextLink>.  </Pgraph><Pgraph>The adjective &#8220;competent&#8221; describes a person who has &#8220;the ability to do something,&#8221; or a &#8220;competency&#8221;. &#8220;Competent&#8221; also has the connotation of a legal right to act or judge. The authorization to judge or act can be considered dependent on the demonstration of sufficient mastery of a competency. In this sense, a competent person can act, but also has an <Mark2>authority or right</Mark2> to act, in the sense that unqualified persons do not have this right <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>. This is a relevant addition for professionals with a legal responsibility, among whom are medical specialists. Their license provides rights and duties, bound to their competence.</Pgraph><Pgraph>&#8220;Competency-based medical education&#8221; evolves from its founding concepts of competency and competence. Linguistically, &#8220;competency-based education&#8221; is not fully logical, as it appears to refer to education that is <Mark2>based on</Mark2> competencies rather than producing them. Other languages use &#8220;competency-directed&#8221; or &#8220;competency-oriented,&#8221; but we will stick to the common usage. Based on a literature review, Frank and colleagues state that CBME is &#8220;an approach to preparing physicians for practice that is fundamentally oriented to graduate outcome abilities and the organization around competencies derived from an analysis of societal and patient needs. It de-emphasizes time-based training and promises a greater accountability, flexibility, and learner-centeredness&#8221; <TextLink reference="22"></TextLink>. While this is strictly not a definition but rather a circumscription, it includes a new element that distinguishes CBME programs from other programs: time independence. This is indeed fundamental to CBME, which can be argued for different reasons <TextLink reference="23"></TextLink>. If competency-based education focuses on certifying or graduating students as soon as they are competent, time in training loses some of its relevance. Theoretically, residents who start education on a high level of capability and prior experience should arrive at a predefined level of competence earlier than those who start with little experience. Education in settings that are workplaces instead of classes is already highly individualized. Given the natural difference in workplaces, learning experiences will be different too. This brings us to two defining features of competency-based medical education: </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">its focus on outcomes formulated as specific competencies, and </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">its independence of the length of time in training. Competence-dependent certification instead of time-dependent certification is reminiscent of Bloom&#8217;s mastery learning.</ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>Given the definitions of &#8220;competence,&#8221; &#8220;competency,&#8221; and &#8220;competent&#8221; for educational purposes as delineated above, competency-based medical education can thus be defined as: <Mark2>Education for the medical profession that is targeted at a fixed level of proficiency in one or more medical competencies.</Mark2> The individualized and time-independent nature of CBME stems naturally from this definition, as education is finished when a pre-set level of competence is reached, rather than after a fixed number of years. In this definition CBME is not restricted to workplace learning, but in practice the approach is specifically useful in settings that allow for individualized learning and flexibility such as the clinical workplace. The additions and descriptions, added by Frank et al <TextLink reference="22"></TextLink>, such as the societal origin of the competencies and its learner centeredness, are useful and defendable, but linguistically not necessary to be included in the definition.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Definitionen</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Viele Autoren haben versucht, die schwammigen Begrifflichkeiten von Kompetenz und Kompetenzen zu kl&#228;ren. Multidimensionale Typologien von Kompetenz sind beschrieben worden, von denen die eine eine konzeptionell-operative Ache einer pers&#246;nlich-beruflichen Achse gegen&#252;berstellt. Die medizinische Kompetenz w&#228;re prim&#228;r im funktionellen Quadrant dieser allgemeinen Typologie situiert, da sie sowohl operativ als auch beruflich ist. Viele andere Dimensionen sind jedoch in der Literatur ausf&#252;hrlich besprochen worden, wie zum Beispiel kontextfrei versus kontextspezifisch, Wissen versus K&#246;nnen, Verhalten versus Bef&#228;higung, lernbar versus unver&#228;nderbar, leistungsorientiert versus entwicklungsorientiert.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Die Fachwelt der medizinischen Ausbildung hat auch Kompetenz auf viele verschiedene Arten definiert <TextLink reference="15"></TextLink>. Eine aktuelle autoritative Definition erfasst das, was wahrscheinlich die Zustimmung einer Mehrzahl der medizinischen Ausbildenden erhielte: &#8222;Die gewohnheitsm&#228;&#223;ige und vern&#252;nftige Verwendung von Kommunikation, Wissen, technischen F&#228;higkeiten, klinischer Argumentation, Emotionen, Werten und Reflektion in der t&#228;glichen Praxis f&#252;r den individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Nutzen&#8220; <TextLink reference="16"></TextLink>. Das Ziel dieser Definition ist es, alle Elemente der professionallen medizinischen Funktionsf&#228;higkeit zu umfassen; dabei sollte sie als Substantiv Singular ohne Artikel (d.h. nicht eine Kompetenz) verwendet werden. Dieser Definition folgend kann die Pluralform &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; nicht sinnvoll verwendet werden. Da &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; linguistisch synonym f&#252;r &#8222;Kompetenz&#8220; verwendet werden <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>, sollten wir &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; f&#252;r Teile verwenden, die gemeinsam das gesamte Spektrum der medizinischen Kompetenz bilden.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Der Begriff &#8222;Kompetenz&#8220;, w&#246;rtlich formuliert als &#8222;die F&#228;higkeit, etwas erfolgreich oder effizient zu tun&#8220; <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>, hat zu Verwirrung unter Ausbildenden gef&#252;hrt. Da die kompetenzbasierte Ausbildung ihr Versprechen nicht immer gehalten hat, ist das Konzept mehrfach neu definiert worden. Der Bildungsrat der Niederlande schlug eine n&#252;tzliche, aus der Literatur abgeleitete Definition von Kompetenz vor, die sechs Eigenschaften beinhaltet:  eine Kompetenz ist <Mark2>spezifisch, integrativ, best&#228;ndig, leistungsorientiert, lernbar</Mark2> und <Mark2>Kompetenzen sind voneinander abh&#228;ngig</Mark2> <TextLink reference="18"></TextLink>. Dies stimmt mit einer neueren Definition von Albanese und Kollegen &#252;berein, die hinzuf&#252;gen, dass Kompetenzen<Mark2> externe Erwartungen</Mark2> reflektieren und zu einem <Mark2>Verhalten</Mark2> f&#252;hren sollten, das <Mark2>anhand von absoluten Standards messbar</Mark2> ist, d.h. unabh&#228;ngig von anderen Lernenden <TextLink reference="19"></TextLink>. Andere Autoren haben darauf hingewiesen, dass die F&#228;higkeit, erfolgreich zu handeln, zum Teil kontextabh&#228;ngig ist. Eine Person kann eine Kompetenz in einem Kontext besitzen, zum Beispiel tags&#252;ber in einem gut ausgestatteten Krankenhaus, aber nicht in einem anderen Kontext, zum Beispiel nachts in einem abgelegenen l&#228;ndlichen Gebiet mit wenig medizinischer Unterst&#252;tzung. Wenn die Leistungsf&#228;higkeit, den gesamten medizinischen Beruf gut auszu&#252;ben, gleichzusetzen ist mit &#8222;medizinischer Kompetenz&#8220;, dann ist eine <Mark2>medizinische Kompetenz</Mark2> zu definieren als die l<Mark2>ernbare, best&#228;ndige und messbare F&#228;higkeit, eine spezifische und integrative Aufgabe auszuf&#252;hren, die Teil der gesamten Aufgabenpalette ist, die den medizinischen Beruf ausmacht</Mark2>. <Mark2>Sie ist eine verallgemeinerte F&#228;higkeit, die je nach Kontext etwas variieren kann.</Mark2> Gem&#228;&#223; dieser Definition sollten weder die allgemeinen Entit&#228;ten des CanMEDS-Rahmenwerks, noch diejenigen des ACGME-Rahmenwerks als &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; bezeichnet werden. Die sieben CanMEDS-Einheiten sind korrekter Weise als &#8222;Rollen&#8220; bezeichnet (Medizinischer Experte, Kommunikator, Mitglied eines Teams, Verantwortungstr&#228;ger &#38; Manager, Gelehrter, Gesundheitsberater und -f&#252;rsprecher, Professionell Handelnder <TextLink reference="20"></TextLink>), im Gegensatz zu den sechs ACGME-Beschreibungen (Patientenversorgung, medizinisches Wissen, zwischenmenschliche und kommunikative F&#228;higkeiten, praxisbasiertes Erlernen und Optimieren, systemorientierte Praxis, Professionalismus), die urspr&#252;nglich als &#8222;Kernkompetenzen&#8220; bezeichnet wurden <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>. Wenn nach Epstein und Hundert &#8222;Kompetenz&#8220; f&#252;r die umfassende Qualit&#228;t eines Arztes steht, dann sind solche allgemeinen Elemente eines Kompetenzrahmenwerks am besten als &#8222;<Mark2>Kompetenzbereiche</Mark2>&#8220; zu bezeichnen. Kompetenzbereiche sind breit gefasste Einheiten, die multiple Kompetenzen beinhalten. Zum Beispiel w&#252;rde der Kompetenzbereich Patientenversorgung Kompetenzen enthalten wie die F&#228;higkeit, &#8222;Informationen &#252;ber den Patienten zu sammeln&#8220;, &#8222;eine korrekte k&#246;rperliche Untersuchung durchzuf&#252;hren&#8220; und &#8222;einen Managementplan zu entwickeln und durchzuf&#252;hren.&#8220; Diese Terminologie ist von Englander und Kollegen unterst&#252;tzt worden <TextLink reference="21"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Das Adjektiv &#8220;kompetent&#8221; beschreibt eine Person, die die &#8222;F&#228;higkeit besitzt, etwas zu tun&#8220;, oder eine &#8222;Kompetenz&#8220;. &#8222;Kompetent&#8220; hat auch die Konnotation eines gesetzlichen Anspruchs, zu handeln oder zu beurteilen. Die Befugnis zu beurteilen oder zu handeln kann als abh&#228;ngig von der ausreichenden Beherrschung einer Kompetenz verstanden werden. Insofern <Mark2>kann</Mark2> eine kompetente Person handeln und hat sogar eine <Mark2>Autorit&#228;t</Mark2> oder das <Mark2>Recht</Mark2> zu handeln in dem Sinne, dass unqualifizierte Personen dieses Recht nicht haben <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>. Dies ist eine wichtige Erg&#228;nzung f&#252;r Professionale mit einer rechtlichen Verantwortung, zu denen Fach&#228;rzte geh&#246;ren. Ihre Zulassung sieht Rechte und Pflichten vor, die an ihre Kompetenz gebunden sind.</Pgraph><Pgraph>&#8222;Kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung&#8220; entstammt gem&#228;&#223; ihren Gr&#252;ndungskonzepten von Kompetenzen und Kompetenz. Linguistisch gesehen ist &#8222;kompetenzbasierte Ausbildung&#8220; nicht ganz logisch, da sie sich auf eine Ausbildung zu beziehen scheint, die auf Kompetenzen basiert, statt sie zu produzieren. Andere Sprachen verwenden Begriffe wie &#8222;kompetenzgerichtet&#8220; oder &#8222;kompetenzorientiert&#8220;, aber wir werden bei der allgemeinen Verwendung bleiben. Basierend auf einer Literatur&#252;bersicht geben Frank und Kollegen an, dass CBME ein &#8222;Ansatz ist, um &#196;rzte f&#252;r die Praxis vorzubereiten, der grunds&#228;tzlich auf die F&#228;higkeiten der Absolventen ausgerichtet ist und auf die Organisation von Kompetenzen, die einer Analyse der Bed&#252;rfnisse der Gesellschaft und der Patienten entstammen. Sie mindert die Bedeutung der zeitbasierten Ausbildung und verspricht eine gr&#246;&#223;ere Verantwortung, Flexibilit&#228;t und Lernenden-Zentriertheit&#8220; <TextLink reference="22"></TextLink>. W&#228;hrend dies streng genommen keine Definition, sondern eher eine Umschreibung ist, beinhaltet sie ein neues Element, das CBME-Programme von anderen Programmen unterscheidet: Zeitunabh&#228;ngigkeit. Dass diese ein grundlegender Aspekt der CBME ist, kann aus verschiedenen Gr&#252;nden argumentiert werden <TextLink reference="23"></TextLink>. Wenn die kompetenzbasierte Ausbildung sich auf das Zertifizieren oder Graduieren von Studierenden konzentriert, sobald sie kompetent sind, verliert die Zeit, die die Ausbildung dauert, etwas an Bedeutung. Theoretisch gesehen sollen Assistenz&#228;rztinnen und -&#228;rzte, die die Ausbildung auf einem hohen Leistungsniveau und mit Vorerfahrung beginnen, fr&#252;her an einem vordefinierten Kompetenzniveau ankommen, als diejenigen, die mit wenig Erfahrung beginnen. Ausbildung am Arbeitsplatz statt im Klassenzimmer ist ohnehin schon hochgradig individualisiert. Angesichts der nat&#252;rlichen Unterschiede von Arbeitspl&#228;tzen wird auch die Lernerfahrung unterschiedlich sein. Das f&#252;hrt uns zu zwei Merkmalen, die kompetenzbasierte Ausbildung definieren: </Pgraph><Pgraph><OrderedList><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="1" numString="1.">ihr Fokus auf  Lernziele, die als spezifische Kompetenzen definiert sind und </ListItem><ListItem level="1" levelPosition="2" numString="2.">ihre Unabh&#228;ngigkeit von der Ausbildungsdauer. </ListItem></OrderedList></Pgraph><Pgraph>Eine kompetenzabh&#228;ngige statt einer zeitabh&#228;ngigen Zertifizierung erinnert an Blooms &#8222;Mastery Learning&#8220;. </Pgraph><Pgraph>Angesichts der Definitionen von &#8222;Kompetenz&#8220;, &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; und &#8222;kompetent&#8220; f&#252;r Ausbildungszwecke, wie oben dargestellt, kann kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung definiert werden als: <Mark2>Ausbildung f&#252;r den Arztberuf, die ein festgelegtes Leistungsniveau in einer oder mehreren medizinischen Kompetenzen zum Ziel hat.</Mark2> Der individualisierte und zeitunabh&#228;ngige Charakter von CBME stammt urspr&#252;nglich aus dieser Definition, da die Ausbildung abgeschlossen ist, wenn ein vorgegebenes Niveau von Kompetenz erreicht ist und nicht nach einer festen Anzahl von Jahren. Gem&#228;&#223; dieser Definition ist CBME nicht auf das Lernen am Arbeitsplatz beschr&#228;nkt, aber in der Praxis ist dieser Ansatz besonders sinnvoll in Situationen, die individualisiertes Lernen und  Flexibilit&#228;t erm&#246;glichen, wie zum Beispiel am klinischen Arbeitsplatz. Die Erg&#228;nzungen und Beschreibungen, die Frank et al. <TextLink reference="22"></TextLink> hinzugef&#252;gt haben, wie zum Beispeil den gesellschaftlichen Ursprung von Kompetenzen und ihre Lernendenzentriertheit, sind n&#252;tzlich und vertretbar, aber linguistisch nicht notwendiger Weise in die Definition einzubeziehen.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Collateral Definitions</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Related to competency-based medical education, a number of other concepts have been used which are valuable to include here. The design of competency frameworks, such as CanMEDS and the ACGME framework, has resulted in detailed descriptions of the qualities trainees must show. Domains of competence have been analytically described, with sub-competencies, key competencies, core competencies, and enabling competencies <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink> to operationalize the rather broad domains into manageable units for teaching and assessment, and to translate them into regulations. However, in doing so, such analytic descriptions tend to become theoretical, context independent, and to move away from practice, and from the practical definition of competency that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary provides: to do something successfully <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>. We recommend that these subdomains of competence are not called competencies, as they usually do not accord with the definition of competency (see above), and they cannot easily be &#8220;attained&#8221; or measured in a valid way, specifically those domains outside medical-technical skills <TextLink reference="24"></TextLink>. For example, &#8220;ethical conduct toward patients&#8221; is an important quality, but rather a prerequisite for circumscriptive tasks than a competency in itself. In several competency frameworks many such &#8220;competencies&#8221; have a rather theoretical nature. </Pgraph><Pgraph>In 2005, the term &#8220;entrustable professional activity&#8221; (EPA) was introduced to reconnect competency frameworks to the workplace <TextLink reference="25"></TextLink>. An EPA is &#8220;a unit of professional practice, defined as a task or responsibility to be entrusted to a trainee once sufficient specific competence is reached to allow for unsupervised practice. EPAs are independently executable within a time frame, observable and measurable in their process and outcome, and suitable for entrustment decisions.&#8221; The capability to execute an EPA can be considered a competency, as defined earlier. Working with EPAs has been called a synthetic or holistic approach, as it brings together multiple domains of competence into relevant tasks of the profession <TextLink reference="26"></TextLink>. The essence of &#8220;trusting&#8221; a trainee, translated to &#8220;entrustment decisions&#8221; about EPAs, counters the notion of a check-box approach of CBME that has been said to reduce the medical profession to a series of superficial skills <TextLink reference="27"></TextLink>. The full description of an EPA includes the connection with a competency framework <TextLink reference="28"></TextLink>. When evaluating learners with a focus on the question &#8220;How much supervision does this learner with this EPA require&#63;&#8221; <TextLink reference="29"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="30"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="31"></TextLink>, then the competencies that underpin its answer may be rather called <Mark2>facets of competence</Mark2>, which is actually a better wording than competencies <TextLink reference="32"></TextLink>. Scales that signify level of supervision for entrustment decisions as now being called <Mark2>entrustablility scales</Mark2> <TextLink reference="31"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="33"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>EPAs have been proposed in a wide range of specialty programs, including pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine, anesthesiology, geriatrics, surgery, pulmonary and critical care, family medicine and emergency medicine <TextLink reference="34"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="35"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="36"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="37"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="38"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="39"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="40"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="41"></TextLink>. </Pgraph><Pgraph>Another recent concept connected with CBME is that of &#8220;milestones.&#8221; En route to competence, trainees develop progressively in a way that can be defined as stages or performance levels. In the 1980s, Dreyfus and Dreyfus defined five stages in the development of skill: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, and Expert <TextLink reference="42"></TextLink>. These have been elaborated and applied to the medical domain by Carraccio and colleagues <TextLink reference="43"></TextLink>. Note that in this model, &#8220;competent&#8221; is a threshold stage that could allow for a justified entrustment decision, a stage at which society would accept unsupervised practice by this person <TextLink reference="44"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="45"></TextLink>, and being &#8220;competent&#8221; certainly does not preclude further development toward proficiency and expertise. The USA Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has built their &#8220;next accreditation system&#8221; on a foundation of milestones <TextLink reference="46"></TextLink>, defined as &#8220;developmentally based, specialty specific achievements that residents are expected to demonstrate at established intervals as they progress through training.&#8221; </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Nebendefinitionen</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Eine Anzahl weiterer mit der kompetenzbasierten medizinischen Ausbildung verwandter Konzepte sind hier erw&#228;hnenswert. Die Gestaltung von Kompetenzrahmenwerken wie des CanMEDS und des ACGME Rahmenwerks hat zu detaillierten Beschreibungen der Qualit&#228;tsauspr&#228;gungen gef&#252;hrt, die Auszubildende zeigen m&#252;ssen. Kompetenzbereiche sind mit Unterkompetenzen, Schl&#252;sselkompetenzen, Kernkompetenzen und Bef&#228;higungskompetenzen <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink> analytisch beschrieben worden, um diese recht breiten Bereiche in &#252;berschaubare Lehr- und Beurteilungseinheiten umzusetzen und sie in Regelungen zu &#252;bertragen. Dabei tendieren solche analytischen Beschreibungen jedoch dazu, theoretisch und unabh&#228;ngig vom Kontext zu werden und sich von der Praxis zu entfernen und von der praktischen Definition von Kompetenz, die das <Mark2>Oxford English Dictionary</Mark2> vorh&#228;lt: etwas erfolgreich zu tun <TextLink reference="17"></TextLink>. Wir empfehlen, dass diese Unterbereiche der Kompetenz nicht Kompetenzen genannt werden, da sie meistens nicht mit der Definition von Kompetenz (siehe oben) &#252;bereinstimmen und nicht leicht &#8222;erlangt&#8220; oder in einer validen Weise gemessen werden k&#246;nnen, insbesondere die Bereiche nicht, die au&#223;erhalb der medizinisch-technischen Fertigkeiten liegen <TextLink reference="24"></TextLink>. Ethisches Verhalten gegen&#252;ber Patienten ist zum Beispiel eine wichtige Eigenschaft, ist aber eher eine Voraussetzung f&#252;r umschriebene Aufgaben als eine Kompetenz an sich. In etlichen Rahmenwerken sind daher viele solche &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; eher theoretischer Natur.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Im Jahr 2005 wurde der Begriff &#8222;anvertraubare professionelle T&#228;tigkeit&#8220; (&#8222;entrustable professional activity&#8220; (EPA)) eingef&#252;hrt, um Kompetenzrahmen wieder mit dem Arbeitsumfeld zu verbinden <TextLink reference="25"></TextLink>. Eine EPA ist &#8222;eine Einheit der beruflichen Praxis, definiert als Aufgabe oder Verantwortlichkeit, die einem Auszubildenden anvertraut wird, wenn eine hinreichende spezifische Kompetenz erreicht ist, die eine nicht supervidierte Praxis erm&#246;glicht. EPAs sind innerhalb eines bestimmten Zeitrahmens unabh&#228;ngig voneinander durchf&#252;hrbar, in ihrem Prozess und Ergebnis beobachtbar und messbar und geeignet f&#252;r Entscheidungen &#252;ber das Anvertrauen.&#8220; Die F&#228;higkeit, eine EPA auszuf&#252;hren, kann, wie oben definiert, als eine Kompetenz betrachtet werden. Das Arbeiten mit EPAs wurde als synthetischer oder holistischer Ansatz bezeichnet, da es mehrere Kompetenzbereiche in relevante Berufsaufgaben einbringt <TextLink reference="26"></TextLink>. Das Wesentliche beim &#8222;Vertrauen&#8220; in einen Auszubildenden, das sich bei EPAs in &#8222;Entscheidungen &#252;ber das Anvertrauen&#8220; umwandelt, wendet sich gegen die Vorstellung eines Checklistenansatzes der CBME, der nachgesagt wurde, den Arztberuf auf eine Reihe oberfl&#228;chlicher F&#228;higkeiten zu reduzieren <TextLink reference="27"></TextLink>. Die vollst&#228;ndige Beschreibung einer EPA beinhaltet die Verbindung mit einem Kompetenzrahmenwerk <TextLink reference="28"></TextLink>. Bei der Bewertung von Lernenden mit dem Fokus auf die Fragestellung &#8222;wieviel Aufsicht ben&#246;tigt diese&#47;r Lernende bei dieser EPA&#63;&#8220; <TextLink reference="29"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="30"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="31"></TextLink>, k&#246;nnen die Kompetenzen, die die Antwort hierzu untermauern, eher als &#8222;Kompetenzfacetten&#8220; bezeichnet werden, was n&#228;mlich eine bessere Formulierung ist als &#8222;Kompetenzen&#8220; <TextLink reference="32"></TextLink>. Skalen, die das Ausma&#223; der Aufsicht f&#252;r Anvertrauensentscheidungen messen, werden nun <Mark2>Anvertrauensskalen</Mark2> genannt <TextLink reference="31"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="33"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>EPAs sind in einer Vielzahl von Facharztprogrammen vorgeschlagen worden einschlie&#223;lich P&#228;diatrie, Psychiatrie, Inneren Medizin, An&#228;sthesiologie, Geriatrie, Chirurgie, Pneumologie und Intensivmedizin, Allgemeinmedizin und Notfallmedizin <TextLink reference="34"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="35"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="36"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="37"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="38"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="39"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="40"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="41"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Ein weiteres neues Konzept, das mit CBME verbunden ist, ist das der &#8222;Meilensteine&#8220;. Auf dem Weg zur Kompetenz entwickeln sich die Auszubildenden progressiv in einer Art und Weise, die man als Stadien oder Leistungsstufen definieren kann. In den 1980ern definierten Dreyfus und Dreyfus f&#252;nf Stadien zur Entwicklung einer F&#228;higkeit: Neuling, fortgeschrittener Anf&#228;nger, Kompetenter, Professioneller und Experte <TextLink reference="42"></TextLink>. Diese wurden von Carraccio und Kollegen ausgearbeitet und auf den medizinischen Bereich angewendet <TextLink reference="43"></TextLink>. Dabei ist zu beachten, dass bei diesem Modell &#8222;kompetent&#8220; ein Schwellenstadium darstellt, das eine begr&#252;ndete Entscheidung &#252;ber das Anvertrauen erlauben k&#246;nnte; ein Stadium, in dem die Gesellschaft eine selbst&#228;ndige Praxis durch diese Person akzeptieren w&#252;rde <TextLink reference="44"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="45"></TextLink>, wobei &#8222;kompetent&#8220; zu sein eine weitere Entwicklung hin zu Professionalit&#228;t und Expertentum keineswegs ausschlie&#223;t. Der Akkreditierungsrat f&#252;r &#196;rztliche Weiterbildung in den USA hat sein &#8222;n&#228;chstes Zulassungssystem&#8220; auf einer Basis von Meilensteinen aufgebaut <TextLink reference="46"></TextLink>, die definiert sind als &#8222;entwicklungsbasierte und fachspezifische Leistungen, die Assistenz&#228;rzte in festgelegten Intervallen w&#228;hrend ihrer Weiterbildung zeigen sollen.&#8220;</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Speculating about future developments</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Postgraduate medical education is in transition. Much has happened since the turn of the century in the USA, Canada and other countries. While Competency-based medical education also meets with criticism <TextLink reference="47"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="48"></TextLink>, it remains a popular concept that continuously evolves <TextLink reference="21"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="49"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="50"></TextLink> and that likely will determine the near future of postgraduate medical training around the world. With the continued pursuit of graduating medical specialists for unsupervised practice who meet predefined standards <TextLink reference="51"></TextLink>, time flexibility will ask for a flexibility, and hence adaptation of legislation. Postgraduate programs now have a fixed length, and CBME-variability, even if benefits for quality and safety of patient care can be established, will require major efforts in organizational and regulatory sense. Flexible training arrangements will also be necessary to accommodate the education of clinician researchers and to better accommodate family planning than is currently possible. The debate on reasonable and effective working hours for postgraduate training will likely lead to a further decrease in the 21<Superscript>st</Superscript> century <TextLink reference="52"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="53"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Another issue that will ask attention is the continuum of medical training. While a century ago the basic medical degree was sufficient for independent practice of most medical trainees, now it has become embedded in a continuum <TextLink reference="54"></TextLink>. Continuum-programs are currently being explored <TextLink reference="55"></TextLink> and it is very well possible that the strict divide between undergraduate and postgraduate training will disappear to a great extent. At least the continued increase of training length before unsupervised practice, which has doubled across one century, cannot be sustained in the future. </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Mutma&#223;ungen &#252;ber zuk&#252;nftige Entwicklungen</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Die postgraduale medizinische Ausbildung befindet sich in einer &#220;bergangsphase. Seit dem Beginn des Jahrhunderts hat sich in den USA, Kanada und in anderen L&#228;ndern viel getan. W&#228;hrend die kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung auch kritisch beurteilt wird <TextLink reference="47"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="48"></TextLink>, ist sie nach wie vor ein beliebtes Konzept, das sich kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt <TextLink reference="21"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="49"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="50"></TextLink> und das voraussichtlich die n&#228;here Zukunft der postgradualen medizinischen Ausbildung weltweit bestimmen wird. Mit der kontinuierlichen Weiterverfolgung von graduierenden medizinischen Spezialisten f&#252;r die selbst&#228;ndige Praxis, die die zuvor definierten Standards erf&#252;llen <TextLink reference="51"></TextLink>, wird die zeitliche Flexibilit&#228;t weitere Flexibilit&#228;t und damit eine Anpassung der Rechtsvorschriften erfordern. Postgraduale Programme haben derzeit eine vorgeschriebene Dauer und die CBME-Variabilit&#228;t &#8211; selbst wenn Vorteile f&#252;r die Qualit&#228;t und Sicherheit der Patientenversorgung hergestellt werden k&#246;nnen &#8211; wird erhebliche Anstrengungen im regulatorischen und organisatorischen Sinne erfordern. Flexible Ausbildungsarrangements werden auch erforderlich sein, um die Ausbildung von klinischen Forschenden anzupassen und um Familienplanung besser zu ber&#252;cksichtigen als es derzeit m&#246;glich ist. Die Debatte &#252;ber angemessene und effektive Arbeitsstunden f&#252;r die &#228;rztliche Weiterbildung wird h&#246;chstwahrscheinlich zu einem weiteren R&#252;ckgang im 21. Jahrhundert f&#252;hren <TextLink reference="52"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="53"></TextLink>.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Eine weitere Thematik, die der Aufmerksamkeit bed&#252;rfen wird, ist die der kontinuierlichen medizinischen Weiterbildung. W&#228;hrend vor einem Jahrhundert der Abschluss des Medizinstudiums f&#252;r die selbst&#228;ndige &#228;rztliche T&#228;tigkeit der meisten Auszubildenden gen&#252;gte, ist er heute in ein Kontinuum eingebettet <TextLink reference="54"></TextLink>. Kontinuum-Programme werden derzeit gepr&#252;ft <TextLink reference="55"></TextLink> und es ist durchaus m&#246;glich, dass die strikte Trennung zwischen dem Medizinstudium und der &#228;rztlichen Weiterbildung weitgehend verschwinden wird. Zumindest kann die weitere Steigerung in der Dauer der Aus- und Weiterbildung, bevor eine selbst&#228;ndige T&#228;tigkeit m&#246;glich ist, die sich w&#228;hrend eines Jahrhunderts verdoppelt hat, zuk&#252;nftig nicht fortgesetzt werden.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Notes</MainHeadline><Pgraph>This article is based to a large extent on Ten Cate O, &#8220;Medical Education, Competency-Based&#8221; in the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health Illness, Behavior, and Society by Cockerham WC, Dingwall R and Quah, SR (Eds), 2014 John Wiley &#38; Sons, Ltd (pp 1329-1335). Permission was obtained to republish this entry.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Anmerkung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Dieser Artikel basiert gr&#246;&#223;tenteils auf Ten Cate O, &#8220;Medical Education, Competency-Based&#8221; in der Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health Illness, Behavior, and Society von Cockerham WC, Dingwall R und Quah, SR (Hrsg.), 2014 John Wiley &#38; Sons, Ltd (Seiten 1329-1335). F&#252;r die Neuver&#246;ffentlichung des Eintrags wurde Genehmigung erteilt.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Competing interests</MainHeadline><Pgraph>The author declares that he has no competing interests.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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