Heres a cutting-edge look at the core competencies required in the practice and education of neurology. This comprehensive guide, written by the crediting organization, provides essential information to maintain professional certification, including the maintenance of certification, cognitive examination, documentation, and assessment of commitment to lifelong learning and practice-based performance. Readers will understand how continuing competence will be measured in order to become boarded and re-certified.
Section I: An Introduction to Core Competencies 1. What Core Competencies Mean to Neurologists and Trainees 2. The Evolving Concept of Clinical Competence in Neurology Practice
Section II: Origins of Core Competencies: Canadian Groundbreaking and American Development 3. Advance Standards: The Canadian Concept of Specialty Competence as Delineated by Physician Roles 4. The ACGME and ABMS Initiatives Toward the Development of Core Competencies
Section III: Core Competencies and the Practice of Neurology Today: The ABPN Initiative 5. General and Neurology-Specific Patient Care Core Competencies 6. General and Neurology-Specific Medical Knowledge Core Competencies 7. Interpersonal and Communications Skills Core Competencies 8. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Core Competencies 9. Professionalism Core Competencies 10. Systems-Based Practice Core Competencies 11. Cross Competencies: What Neurologists Should Know About Psychiatry
Section IV: The Impact of the Core Competencies 12. Implications of the Core Competencies on ABPN Certification and Maintenance of Certification for Neurology Practitioners 13. Implications of the Core Competencies on the Full Spectrum of Medical Education for Clinical Neurology Practice: From Medical School Through Continuing Medical Education 14. A Forward View: Core Competencies and Future Neurology Practice
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Index
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