Building Capacity for CBME Implementation at Queen’s University

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Medical education in Canada is currently in a state of transition. In 2013, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada launched Competency by Design (CBD), an initiative which will see all specialty and subspecialty programs in Canada begin transitioning to competency-based medical education (CBME) by 2022. At Queen's University, we intend that beginning July 2017, residents entering any of our 29 postgraduate specialty programs will be integrated into CBME residency programs. This paper shares Queen's University's experience of an accelerated, institutional implementation of CBME in advance of the Royal College's competency by design (CBD) program.