After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) today announced the increased emphasis on “procedural ...

Leaders of the medical profession have realized over the past 15 years that traditional physician training models were not likely to meet a population and health care system’s needs (Frenk et al., ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

A competency assessment framework for advanced nurse practitioners was developed for an acute medical unit, and assessed by advanced nurse practitioners and consultants Abstract Advanced nurse ...