The Faculty Development Paradox: Applying Competency-Based Education Principles to Faculty Development
Authors
Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education and Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Director of Competency-Based Medical Education, Postgraduate Medical Education and Division Director (Nephrology), University of Ottawa
Head of Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Associate Dean, Office of Academic Affairs and Associate Designated Official, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatrics Lead, Antiracism and Social Justice, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Red River Metis)
Senior Attending Physician, University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern
Professor and Division Director, Division of PMR (Physiatry), Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of Faculty Continuing Medical Education, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director of Evaluation, Harvard Kidney Urology Hematology Training Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences Education, McGill University, Montreal; Senior Clinician-Educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa
Senior Vice President, Competencies, Milestones, and Faculty Development, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois
As members of the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborators
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.2603 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Page range: 986 - 1000
Submitted on: Mar 25, 2026
Accepted on: Jun 15, 2026
Published on: Sep 29, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2026 Teri Lee Turner, Jolanta Karpinski, Arvin K. Damodaran, Pedro Tanaka, Ming-Ka Chan, Severin Pinilla, Denyse Richardson, Mary Ellen J. Goldhamer, Linda Snell, Laura Edgar, As members of the International Competency-Based Health Professions Education Collaborators, published by Ubiquity Press
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