TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative development of a shared framework for competency-based veterinary education
AU - Matthew, Susan M.
AU - Bok, Harold G.J.
AU - Chaney, Kristin P.
AU - Read, Emma K.
AU - Hodgson, Jennifer L.
AU - Rush, Bonnie R.
AU - May, Stephen A.
AU - Kathleen Salisbury, S.
AU - Ilkiw, Jan E.
AU - Frost, Jody S.
AU - Molgaard, Laura K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 AAVMC
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - Competency-based medical education is an educational innovation implemented in health professions worldwide as a means to ensure graduates meet patient and societal needs. The focus on student-centered education and programmatic outcomes offers a series of benefits to learners, institutions and society. However, efforts to establish a shared, comprehensive competency-based framework in veterinary education have lagged.This article reports on the development and outcome of a competency-based veterinary education (CBVE) framework created through multi-institutional collaboration with international input from veterinary educators and veterinary educational leaders.The CBVE Framework is designed to reflect the competencies expected of new graduates from member institutions of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC).The CBVE Framework consists of nine domains of competence and 32 competencies, each supplemented with illustrative sub-competencies to guide veterinary schools in implementing competency-based education in their local context.The nine domains of competence are: clinical reasoning and decision-making; individual animal care and management; animal population care and management; public health; communication; collaboration; professionalism and professional identity; financial and practice management; and scholarship. Developed through diverse input to facilitate broad adoption, the CBVE Framework provides the foundation for competency-based curricula and outcomes assessment in veterinary education internationally. We believe that other groups seeking to design a collective product for broad adoption might find useful the methods used to develop the CBVE Framework, including establishing expertise diversity within a small-to-medium size working group, soliciting progressive input and feedback from stakeholders, and engaging in consensus building and critical reflection throughout the development process.
AB - Competency-based medical education is an educational innovation implemented in health professions worldwide as a means to ensure graduates meet patient and societal needs. The focus on student-centered education and programmatic outcomes offers a series of benefits to learners, institutions and society. However, efforts to establish a shared, comprehensive competency-based framework in veterinary education have lagged.This article reports on the development and outcome of a competency-based veterinary education (CBVE) framework created through multi-institutional collaboration with international input from veterinary educators and veterinary educational leaders.The CBVE Framework is designed to reflect the competencies expected of new graduates from member institutions of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC).The CBVE Framework consists of nine domains of competence and 32 competencies, each supplemented with illustrative sub-competencies to guide veterinary schools in implementing competency-based education in their local context.The nine domains of competence are: clinical reasoning and decision-making; individual animal care and management; animal population care and management; public health; communication; collaboration; professionalism and professional identity; financial and practice management; and scholarship. Developed through diverse input to facilitate broad adoption, the CBVE Framework provides the foundation for competency-based curricula and outcomes assessment in veterinary education internationally. We believe that other groups seeking to design a collective product for broad adoption might find useful the methods used to develop the CBVE Framework, including establishing expertise diversity within a small-to-medium size working group, soliciting progressive input and feedback from stakeholders, and engaging in consensus building and critical reflection throughout the development process.
KW - Competency framework
KW - Competency-based education
KW - Competency-based medical education
KW - Competency-based veterinary education
KW - Graduate outcomes
KW - Inter-institutional collaboration
KW - International collaboration
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U2 - 10.3138/JVME.2019-0082
DO - 10.3138/JVME.2019-0082
M3 - Article
C2 - 32530802
AN - SCOPUS:85096883556
SN - 0748-321X
VL - 47
SP - 579
EP - 593
JO - Journal of veterinary medical education
JF - Journal of veterinary medical education
IS - 5
ER -
