Health care is changing rapidly.
New technologies, advances in care delivery, and scientific discoveries are happening at rates that make it challenging for teaching and learning practices across the continuum to keep up. Whether learners are at the beginning of their careers or seasoned clinicians, new demands and advances in health care require them to acquire new competencies.
The New and Emerging Areas in Medicine Series is a guide for everyone who develops curricula within the field of medicine and those learning to practice medicine or continuing their professional development and includes competencies in:
- Artificial intelligence, which helps ensure all medical learners - regardless of where they train - gain foundational knowledge in AI principles and understand its ethical and legal implications.
- Quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS), which provides guidance for integrating and improving quality improvement and patient safety curricula across the continuum
- Telehealth, to provide guidance for integrating and improving telehealth curricula across the continuum.
Each set of new and emerging competencies is developed by leaders from across the medical education and clinical practice communities, including the dedicated reviewers of iterative drafts who provided input through surveys and focus groups. These competencies add depth to selected emerging areas to help guide curricular and professional development, formative performance assessment, cross-continuum collaborations, and, ultimately, improvements in health care services and outcomes. They are not intended for high-stakes assessment or for purposes of accreditation.