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Competency Perspective on Teaching
- Teaching And Learning Is More Individualized, Providing Opportunities For Independent Study
Throughout its history, competency-based education has been sensitive to the differing backgrounds, learning styles, aptitudes, and abilities of learners. As experienced educators, we know that interns enter residency with different knowledge and skills, and that residents enter new rotations or educational experiences with differing abilities, motivation, and knowledge bases. If all residents are expected to reach competency, it stands to reason that we will have to provide additional resources to those who start out at a disadvantage or who learn best through individual study and practice.
- Individualized study in the form, for example, of portfolio entries, computer-based learning modules, virtual conferences, and interactions with standardized patients provide residents with the options for self-paced study and learning.
- Individualized study can be offered as complementary to other group learning activities or as “stand alone” learning modules. For example, the PowerPoint slides from a lecture could be provided at the residency website for later review, or the presentation, with pre-tests and post-tests could be placed on the website in place of a lecture.
- Although computer-based learning modules provide an efficient means for transmitting certain types of information, and “virtual clinics” do a good job of simulating patient interaction, nothing can replace the advice of a mentor or the real-life interaction with a patient. Electronic media should be integrated with a strong interpersonal approach to learning.
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