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• Guide for Completing Assessments of EPAs (Department of Surgery, Surgical Foundations Program)

• Royal College - International Competency-Based Medical Education (ICBME)
• MAC-CBME: A Guide to CBME/CBD
• ​How to improve the skills of tomorrow’s doctors​
• Royal College - The Year's Best CBD Resources
• Royal College - CBD Webinar Series
• Residents: Key things you need to know
• A Residents' Guide

Don’t miss these resources provided by the Competency-Based Medical Education Committee, Postgraduate Medical Education Program, McMaster University.

• CBD Rollout

MAC-CBME Newsletters

• Issue 11: March 2018
• Issue 10: February 2018
• Issue 9: January 2018
• Issue 8: November 2017
• Issue 7: September 2017
• Issue 6: June 2017
• Issue 5: May 2017
• Issue 4: March 2017
• Issue 3: February 2017 
• Issue 2: January 2017
• Issue 1: Fall 2016

The Department of Surgery’s Office of Education Science (Director: Dr. Ranil Sonnadara, Associate Professor, Part-Time) is also involved in a number of initiatives related to Competency-Based Medical Education. Click here for further information: https://sonnadaralab.mcmaster.ca/research/competency-based-education. 

Looking for more information about the CBD Program? Check out these resources:

Competence By Design (general information from the Royal College, including links to the CBD toolkit, the CBD rollout schedule, information on milestones and Entrustable Professional Acts/EPAs, videos, etc.)

Sonnadara RR, Mui C, McQueen S, Mironova P, Nousiainen M, Safir O, Kraemer W, Ferguson P, Alman B, Reznick R. Reflections on competency-based education and training for surgical residents. J Surg Educ. 2014 Jan-Feb;71(1):151-8.

CanMEDS 2015

Launched at the 2015 ICRE in Vancouver; for more information on the new Physician Competency Framework, visit the Royal College's interactive website: CanMEDS Interactive