Continuing the competency debate: Reflections on definitions and discourses

摘要

We read with much interest Parent, Jouquan and De Ketele's engaging and thoughtful commentary "CanMEDS and other "competency and outcome-based approaches" in medical education: clarifying the ongoing ambiguity" (Parent et al. 2012). We appreciate the authors' interest in our publication, Flower Power: the armoured expert in the CanMEDS competency framework? (Whitehead et al. 2011) and thank the editor of Advances in Health Sciences Education for the opportunity to respond. Parent et al. make an important contribution to ongoing discussions about the strengths, limitations, practicality and theoretical constructions of competency frameworks and outcomes-based curricula.