An educator's credo: They don't learn what you expect, but what you inspect.

摘要

It may be sad, but true. Evaluation drives learning mercilessly, and as cancer educators, we must pay careful attention to what we inspect to help our students to learn what we expect.This is an era of competencies. I have written before of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education's list of six core competencies-medical knowledge, skills, communication, professionalism, practice-based improvement, and system-based practice. Those "assessing" undergraduate and continuing medical education, as well as education for the other health professions, are talking the competency lingo too, so we must jump aboard.