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Competency-Based Education

"Competency-Based Education" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Educational programs designed to ensure that students attain prespecified levels of competence in a given field or training activity. Emphasis is on achievement or specified objectives.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Competency-Based Education" by people in this website by year, and whether "Competency-Based Education" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003 and 2008 and 2011 and 2023
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