Systems Thinking: Identifying Leverage Points for Achieving a Continuum of Competency-Based Health Professions Education
Authors
Vice Dean for Education in the Office of Medical Education and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
Head of Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Director, Centre for Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa; Vice President of Education, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa
Associate Professor and Department Head of the Department for Assessment and Evaluation, Institute for Medical Education in Bern, University of Bern
Senior Attending Physician, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Balgrist, Zurich
Professor and Division Director, Division of PMR (Physiatry), Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Tenured Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio
Associate Dean for the Office of Academic Affairs and Associate Designated Official at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, CB 7574, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7574
for the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborators
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.2573 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Page range: 916 - 929
Submitted on: Mar 16, 2026
Accepted on: Jun 10, 2026
Published on: Sep 29, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2026 Karen E. Hauer, Arvin K. Damodaran, Jason R. Frank, Soeren Huwendiek, Adrian P. Marty, Denyse Richardson, Daniel J. Schumacher, Pedro Tanaka, Teri Lee Turner, Denise H. Rhoney, for the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborators, published by Ubiquity Press
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