Competency-Based Time-Variable Resident Education: A Programmatic Update

Elizabeth A. Moroni, MD MHA; Anne E. Glenney, BA; Joseph Mocharnuk, BA; Francesco Egro, MD; Jesse A. Goldstein, MD; Joseph E. Losee, MD;  Vu T. Nguyen, MD 

Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Background

More than 100 years after the Flexner Report established time-based residency training, our medical education system is on the brink of a paradigm shift towards competency-based evaluation of graduate medical trainees.