Patient perspectives on physician competence: Validation of the CanMEDS framework.

ABSTRACT: Competency frameworks such as CanMEDS anchor medical training and accountability, yet most validations privilege educators and seldom test whether patients recognize and prioritize the same architecture. We conducted a cross-sectional online survey (February-June 2025) of Lebanese adults (N = 403) to validate, from the patient perspective, the seven CanMEDS roles and to examine sociodemographic moderators of endorsement and rank priorities. A 103-item instrument combined five-point endorsements and forced ranking. Psychometric evaluation used polychoric exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with diagonally weighted least squares; reliability was estimated with Cronbach's α and McDonald's ω. Robust linear regressions (HC4) modeled domain scores, and multinomial logist

SUBMITTER: El Lakis AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12753085 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature