Desired outcomes of training are identified based on societal needs.

Outcomes are paramount so that the graduate functions as an effective health professional.

In competency-based medical education (CBME), competencies and their developmental markers must be explicitly sequenced to support learner progression from novice to master clinicians.

Sequencing must consider that some competencies form building blocks for the development of further competence.

Progressions is not always a smooth, predictable curve.

Time is a resource, not a driver or criterion.

Learning experiences should be sequenced in a way that supports the progression of competence.

There must be flexibility to accommodate variation in individual learner progression.

Learning experiences should resemble the practice environment.

Learning experiences should be carefully selected to enable acquisition of one or many abilities.

Most learning experiences should be tied to an essential graduate ability.

Clinical teaching emphasizes learning through experience and application, not just knowledge acquisition.

Teachers use coaching techniques to diagnose a learner in clinical situations and give actionable feedback.

Teaching is responsive to individual learner needs.

Learners are actively engaged in determining their learning needs.

Teachers and learners coproduce learning.

There are multiple points and methods for data collection.

Methods for data collection match the quality of the competency being assessed.

Emphasis is on workplace-based assessment.

Emphasis is on providing personalized, timely, meaningful feedback.

Progression is based on entrustment.

There is a robust system for decision making.

Good assessment requires attention to issues of implicit and explicit bias that can adversely affect the assessment process.