Policy

Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an emerging model of training for medical students. Instead of relying simply on the time spent in residency, CBME focuses on having residents achieve necessary skills such that they would be able to perform competently (successfully) and independently in their selected specialties. A group of residents, academic faculty, and clinical faculty at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have come together to create a roadmap as to how to apply CBME specifically to interventional psychiatry – which includes the practice of electroconvulsive therapy and rTMS.