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This review presents conceptual frameworks and prerequisites for defining and promoting excellence and professionalism in anaesthesia training beyond mere competence.
This review highlights the need to shift focus from mere competence to promoting excellence in anaesthesia medical training.
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May guide anaesthesia training programs toward excellence; leaves open empirical validation of these frameworks.
Recent trends in medical training have tended to focus on competence, in the sense of adequate performance, rather than excellence. This article reviews published literature and relevant concepts relating to excellence and professionalism from within anaesthesia, from medicine more generally and from outside the profession. A number of conceptual frameworks are presented that could be adapted for the promotion of excellence, and some of the necessary prerequisites for this promotion discussed.
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Smith et al. (2009) conducted a review in Medical training in anaesthesia. This review presents conceptual frameworks and prerequisites for defining and promoting excellence and professionalism in anaesthesia training beyond mere competence.
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