Attributes and generic competencies required of doctors: findings from a participatory concept mapping study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical education should ensure graduates are equipped for practice in modern health-care systems. Practicing effectively in complex health-care systems requires contemporary attributes and competencies, complementing core clinical competencies. These need to be made overt and opportunities to develop and practice them provided. This study explicates these attributes and generic competencies using Group Concept Mapping, aiming to inform pre-vocational medical education curriculum development.

Methods

Group Concept Mapping is a mixed methods consensus building methodology whereby ideas are generated using qualitative techniques, sorted and grouped using hierarchical cluster analysis, and rated to provide further quantitative confirmation of value. Health service pr

SUBMITTER: Ogden K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8186188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature