Will Any Road Get You There? Examining Warranted and Unwarranted Variation in Medical Education.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate and graduate medical education have long embraced uniqueness and variability in curricular and assessment approaches. Some of this variability is justified (warranted or necessary variation), but a substantial portion represents unwarranted variation. A primary tenet of outcomes-based medical education is ensuring that all learners acquire essential competencies to be publicly accountable to meet societal needs. Unwarranted variation in curricular and assessment practices contributes to suboptimal and variable educational outcomes and, by extension, risks graduates delivering suboptimal health care quality. Medical education can use lessons from the decades of study on unwarranted variation in health care as part of efforts to continuously improve the quality of training prog

SUBMITTER: Holmboe ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311475 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature