1. CanMEDS Competency Framework
Developed by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Detailed process of consensus building, piloting and evaluating since 1993
Current version released 2005
Frank 2005

2. CanMEDS Competency Framework
Outcome oriented
Organised around ‘physician-roles’ or metacompetencies
Medical Expert is the central integrative role
Other roles overlap and support medical expertise

3. Physician Roles or Meta competencies
Medical Expert/Clinical decision-maker
Communicator
Collaborator
Manager
Health Advocate
Scholar
Professional
Each role/meta-competency is divided into
key competencies/roles underpinned by
supporting competencies

4. How it would work Psychiatric expert:
Is the distinctive/central role of a doctor/psychiatrist
Provides the home for most specialty-specific competencies
For example…

5. Psychiatric expert Key competencies
1.1 The psychiatrist is able to: conceptualise, understand and apply the diagnostic skills to investigate, elicit, describe and define psychopathological and other clinical findings.
1.2 …
1.3 … ….

6. Supporting competencies
1.1.1understand the history of psychiatry and how this has impacted upon contemporary psychiatry
1.1.2 …
1.1.3 …
1.1.4 …
..…
draw up a diagnostic formulation including risk assessment