Competency-Based Medical Education - A Framework for Advancing Equity for our Learners and our Patients (IDEAS) - February 5

Includes a Live Web Event on 02/05/2025 at 12:00 PM (EST)

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Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is a paradigm shift that places individual and community health outcomes front and center. CBME provides a framework for educators to develop instructional and assessment approaches to achieve desired equitable patient outcomes. CBME implementation is ongoing in undergraduate and graduate medical education in the U.S. and internationally and is of broad interest to educators and learners across the medical education continuum as the health care community at large seeks to address the persistent inequities in our health care, education, and assessment systems.

As described by Van Melle et al (Acad Med 2019), authentic implementation of CBME involves 5 core components: 1) a set of outcomes, 2) sequenced progression of competencies, 3) learning tailored to competencies, 4) teaching tailored to competencies, and 5) programmatic assessment. Many medical specialties in the U.S. have defined the outcomes (core component 1) for their specialty using the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)—observable activities expected of physicians—practicing in a given specialty.

This session will highlight how implementation of CBME’s core components, utilizing EPAs as outcomes, can be a driver for equity in the learning environment. Panelists will discuss the challenges that exist in the current clinical learning environment, with a focus on trust and its role in the implementation of CBME. Using one of the pediatric EPAs as a practical example (“Use of Population Health Strategies and Quality Improvement Methods to Promote Health and Address Racism, Discrimination, and Other Contributors to Inequities Among Pediatric Populations”), this session will conclude with a discussion of how the CBME outcomes framework, and specifically the EPAs, can be used to advance equity in patient care.

About IDEAS
The AAMC IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism) Learning Series provides actionable information about DEI strategies that you can put into practice to become a more effective and successful leader, educator, and member of the academic medicine community.

David A. Turner, MD

Vice President, Competency-Based Medical Education
American Board of Pediatrics

David A. Turner, MD is the Vice President for Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) at the American Board of Pediatrics. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Critical Care at Duke Children’s Hospital. Dr. Turner attended medical school and completed internship, residency, and a year as chief resident in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He then completed his fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. Over the course of his career, Dr. Turner has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and presented at a wide range of national and international venues. He held a number of local, regional, and national education leadership roles prior to transitioning to his current role at the American Board of Pediatrics in September of 2020. In this role, he is committed to helping lead a thoughtful transition to a competency-based approach to learning and assessment across the education continuum in pediatrics. 

Patricia Poitevien, MD, MSc, FAAP

Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Patricia Poitevien, MD, MSc, FAAP is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Poitevien’ s research focuses on inclusion and mentorship of underrepresented learners in academic medicine.  She has served as a residency program director in Pediatrics for 10 years and was a founding member of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) Learning Community on Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine (UIM) and is currently the immediate Past-President of the APPD. She has lectured nationally on disparities and inequity in medical education and assessment and has led numerous workshops on building diverse and inclusive environments within academic medicine. Her interests include recruitment and mentorship of UIM trainees and faculty, equity in assessment, and the impact of racism on graduate medical education and professional identity formation for UIM learners.

Jamiu O. Busari, MD, MHPE, PhD, CCPE, FRCPC (hons) (Moderator)

Associate Professor of Medical Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, Maastricht University
Adjunct Professor & Scientist, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University
Member, Diversity & Inclusivity Advisory Board, Maastricht University
Consultant Pediatrician, Horacio Oduber Hospital, Aruba
Commissioning Editor, BMJLeader

Jamiu Busari is an associate professor of medical education at Maastricht University (Netherlands) and an adjunct professor and scientist at the Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University (Canada). He is also a consultant pediatrician at the Horacio Oduber Hospital (Aruba). Jamiu is a Certified Canadian Physician Executive, Harvard Macy Scholar, and an HBS executive education graduate in Managing Health Care Delivery. He is a former executive member of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO) and a founding member of ‘sanokondu’ (an international community of practice dedicated to fostering health professional leadership education worldwide). Jamiu is a public speaker, writer, and clinician educator. As a healthcare leader, he is a fervent advocate for DEI and social justice. He is a member of the University of Maastricht’s advisory council on Diversity and Inclusion and associate editor for ICEnet Blog, Clinical Medicine and Research, and Commissioning Editor for BMJLeader. Jamiu’s activities as a clinician and educator have been recognized through various awards, which include the Educational Leadership Award 2015 (World Education Congress), Clinician of the Year Award 2015 (Maastricht University), and the International Residency Educator Award 2016 (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada). In 2017, he received the Critics’ Choice Award (Association for the Study of Medical Education) and the Jan Heijlman Prize for Best Teaching Specialist in 2022 (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam). In 2023, Jamiu was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Jamiu is happily married and has two children, aged 15 and 12.

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