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Competency Based
Curriculum
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The Indiana Initiative: Physicians for the 21st Century
clearly recommended that nine competencies be
integrated into the curriculum throughout medical school.
We in Bloomington have taken this idea of
integration to heart, and have put into each of our courses
required skills that enable all teaching faculty
to assess more than one competency. Thus, all course
directors have included in their courses specific
tasks that will assist in the evaluation of the competencies
for this year. All faculty will be using Likert
scales as the administrative evaluation tool, but most
faculty members have also incorporated required
projects/skills that will also be utilized in the evaluation
process. Our implementation plan requires that
all course directors be involved in competency assessment
and grading. Because we have only 28
students in our classes, we felt that this approach would be
a more accurate and fair evaluation.
Although no one course is strictly responsible for any one
competency, the outline below indicates what
each course will require from all students for each
competency. Our faculty have included electronic
technology, problem solving and professionalism in their
classes, regardless of discipline. Our faculty
stress the need for life-long learning and moral reasoning
in their classes. Our faculty encourage every
student to be aware of their personal abilities and to show
students how to deal with the performance
feedback that will be a part of their professional lives
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