After spending our lives in healthcare, we're pretty used to being measured. From elementary school to high school, college, medical school, residency, and beyond, we've been tested and monitored and ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Other than my autonomy, there's nothing I dislike having challenged more than my competence. I like to be good at things, and I don't like it when people think I'm not. I know this because when my ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

What is cultural competency, and how does it fit in with healthcare? A recent survey among physicians in the United States shows that cultural competency is a key issue both for healthcare ...

In late April, the White House issued an executive order instructing accrediting bodies to rely only on "data on program-level student outcomes ... without reference to race, ethnicity, or sex." Many ...