CanMEDS Competency Framework

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CanMEDSCompetency Framework

• Developed by the Royal College of Physicians and
  Surgeons of Canada
• Detailed process of consensus building, piloting
  and evaluating since 1993
• Current version released 2005
• Frank 2005

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CanMEDSCompetency Framework

• Outcome oriented
• Organised around physician-roles or
  metacompetencies
• Medical Expert is the central integrative role
• Other roles overlap and support medical expertise

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Physician Roles orMeta competencies

• Medical Expert/Clinical decision-maker
• Communicator
• Collaborator
• Manager
• Health Advocate
• Scholar
• Professional
• Each role/meta-competency is divided into
• key competencies/roles underpinned by
• supporting competencies

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How it would work

• Psychiatric expert
• Is the distinctive/central role of a
  doctor/psychiatrist
• Provides the home for most specialty-specific
  competencies
• For example

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Psychiatric expertKey competencies

• 1.1 The psychiatrist is able to conceptualise,
  understand and apply the diagnostic skills to
  investigate, elicit, describe and define
  psychopathological and other clinical findings.
• 1.2
• 1.3
• .

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Supporting competencies

• 1.1.1understand the history of psychiatry and how
  this has impacted upon contemporary psychiatry
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• ..
• 1.1.16 draw up a diagnostic formulation including
  risk assessment