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Task Force on Graduate Medical Education on Bioethics and Humanities Response to the ACGME General Competencies:
The Model Curriculum Project on Bioethics and Humanities
As of July 1, 2002, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has promulgated six General Competencies fro residency education: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Professionalism, and Systems-Based Practice.
Four of these Competencies are heavily laden with goals of knowledge and demonstration-based objectives for residency programs. The ASBH Task Force for GME in Bioethics and Humanities has undertaken two responses: 1) the Syllabus Exchange Project (see our other web pages); and, 2) the Model Curriculum Project.
The Model Curriculum Project is an Open Source project to share fundamental educational goals and means to teach Bioethics and Humanities to house officers of all specialties. As such it is modular and non-specific to one's individual specialty. For such readings, we commend the reader to Medline as well as to many excellent books on ethics and the specialties (e.g., in surgery, obstetrics, and primary care). The four relevant competencies in ethics have been identified with their ACGME language, and each has been responded to individually by this Task Force with a Model Curriculum Response that includes Goals, Objectives, Learning Sub-points, Readings, and Methods of Assessment. The language of competency is linked below and has a subsequent link to the Model Curriculum Response:
We would like to thank the scores of ASBH members who were a valued part of the assembling of these materials. We hope these materials will help many residencies in their graduate medical education efforts
David J. Doukas, MD & Julia Connelly, MD,
Task Force Co-Chairs
Competency Task Force Director
- Felicia Cohn, PhD (Interpersonal and Communication Skills)
- Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD (System-Based Practice)
- Julie Rothstein Rosenbaum, MD (Patient Care Group Leader)
- Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH (Professionalism Group Leader)
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