3 or 4 years for Anesthesia Residency Program? How to approach the discussion in terms of competency-based education☆

Competency-based medical education: don’t wait for change, lead it!

“…Some Colombian anesthesiology residencies have now been extended to a 4-year program. 8 While most Canadian anesthesiology training programs will continue to maintain the length of a CBME-based residency at 5 year's length, 1 university is testing a 4-year accelerated curriculum. 1 In the past year, the Pan American Federation of Faculties and Schools of Medicine (Federaci on Panamericana Facultades Medicina) signed the Cartagena Declaration, which stated that educational institutions should promote dynamic and high-quality training processes guided by competencies, and highlighted the need to update professional competencies.…”