Abstract
Introduction: Despite the Increasingly attention to competence in medical science education, how to teach it has received less attention. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to identify the characteristics and components of competency-oreinted medical science education
Materials & Methods: Applied research was conducted with the qualitative content analysis method, in two parts, documents and focused group discussion.
Selection of cases and participants was done with a targeted method, sampling of special or unique cases, including 14 articles and 2 books, and 14 professors and doctoral students with teaching experience in medical sciences participated
Results: Based on the results, the elements and characteristics of competency-oriented medical science education were described in 4 main components; Contextual factors-infrastructure, learner and the process of education and evaluation-feedback and 11 sub-components and their characteristics.
Conclusion: Competency means the acquisition of transferable knowledge, the result of deep and meaningful learning. As a result, competency-oriented medical science education, focused on learning processes, and includes active, collaborative teaching-learning methods, original evaluation, constructive feedback, and metacognitive awareness.
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