"We just don't have the resources": Supervisor perspectives on introducing workplace-based assessments into medical specialist training in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

South Africa (SA) is on the brink of implementing workplace-based assessments (WBA) in all medical specialist training programmes in the country. Despite the fact that competency-based medical education (CBME) has been in place for about two decades, WBA offers new and interesting challenges. The literature indicates that WBA has resource, regulatory, educational and social complexities. Implementing WBA would therefore require a careful approach to this complex challenge. To date, insufficient exploration of WBA practices, experiences, perceptions, and aspirations in healthcare have been undertaken in South Africa or Africa. The aim of this study was to identify factors that could impact WBA implementation from the perspectives of medical specialist educators. The outco

SUBMITTER: Ras T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629100 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature