Jason R. Frank

CORE-HPE Reporting Guidelines: Standardizing Reporting for Competency-Based Health Professions Education Outcomes Research

Background: Competency-Based Health Professions Education (CBHPE) is increasingly implemented; however, CBHPE outcomes research remains difficult to interpret and synthesize when studies incompletely report the CBHPE model and other elements. Objective: To develop structured reporting guidelines for CBHPE outcomes stud...

Systems Thinking: Identifying Leverage Points for Achieving a Continuum of Competency-Based Health Professions Education

Competency-based education is widely endorsed in health professions education (CBHPE) as an outcomes-focused approach to ensuring that all graduates demonstrate the competencies needed to improve patient and population health. Despite adoption of outcomes frameworks, accreditation requirements, and CBHPE tactics, inter...

Validity in the Era of Competency-Based Health Professions Education: Tensions and Potential Solutions

Assessment in health professions education has evolved dramatically in the past hundred years. The way in which we conceptualize validity has also required evolution, particularly in the era of competency-based health professions education (CBHPE). The CBHPE approach compels us to reexamine a historical focus on object...

Exploring the Intentions, Experiences, and Adaptations of Postgraduate Internal Medicine Programs in the Implementation of Competence by Design.