Nagpal Taniya S, Pearce Nicole, Dhaliwal Khushmol, Abraham Joseph Roshan
Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Obesity Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Obes Pillars. 2023 Aug 18;8:100086. doi: 10.1016/j.obpill.2023.100086. eCollection 2023 Dec.
This commentary provides an overview of forthcoming activities by Obesity Canada (OC) to inform obesity competencies in medical education. Competencies in medical education refer to abilities of medical professionals to appropriately provide patients the care they need. A recognized Canadian framework for informing medical competencies is CanMEDs. Additionally, the Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative (OMEC) provides 32 obesity specific medical competencies to be integrated across medical education curriculum. OC released the first globally recognized Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline (CPGs) in 2020 inclusive of 80 recommendations. Referring to the CanMEDs and OMEC competencies, OC is developing medical education competencies for caring for patients who have obesity in line with the recent CPGs that can be applied to health professions education programs around the world.
Activities being completed by OC's Education Action Team include a scoping review to summarize Canadian obesity medical education interventions or programs. Next, with expert consensus a competency set is being developed by utilizing the CanMEDs Framework, OMEC and the CPGs. Following this, OC will initially survey undergraduate medical programs across the country and determine to what degree they are meeting the competencies in content delivery. These findings will lead to a national report card outlining the current state of obesity medical education in Canada within undergraduate medical education.
To date, OC has completed the scoping review and the competency set. The Education Action Team is in the process of developing the survey tools to assess the current delivery of obesity medical education in Canada.
The evidenced-based report card will support advocacy to refine and enhance future educational initiatives with the overall goal of improving patient care for individuals living with obesity. The process being applied in Canada may also be applicable and modified for other regions to assess and better obesity medical education.
本评论概述了加拿大肥胖症协会（OC）即将开展的活动，这些活动旨在为医学教育中的肥胖症能力培养提供信息。医学教育中的能力是指医学专业人员为患者提供所需护理的能力。加拿大一个公认的用于指导医学能力的框架是加拿大医学教育专业分类框架（CanMEDs）。此外，肥胖医学教育协作组织（OMEC）提供了32项针对肥胖症的特定医学能力，这些能力将整合到医学教育课程中。OC在2020年发布了首个全球认可的成人肥胖临床实践指南（CPG），其中包含80条建议。参照CanMEDs和OMEC的能力标准，OC正在制定针对肥胖患者护理的医学教育能力标准，这些标准与最新的CPG一致，可应用于世界各地的卫生专业教育项目。
OC教育行动团队正在完成的活动包括进行一项范围综述，以总结加拿大肥胖医学教育干预措施或项目。接下来，通过专家共识，利用CanMEDs框架、OMEC和CPG制定一套能力标准。在此之后，OC将首先对全国的本科医学项目进行调查，确定它们在内容传授方面达到这些能力标准的程度。这些调查结果将形成一份全国成绩单，概述加拿大本科医学教育中肥胖医学教育的现状。
迄今为止，OC已完成范围综述和能力标准制定。教育行动团队正在开发调查工具，以评估加拿大目前肥胖医学教育的实施情况。
这份基于证据的成绩单将支持相关宣传活动，以完善和加强未来的教育举措，总体目标是改善对肥胖患者的护理。加拿大正在应用的这一过程也可能适用于其他地区，并可进行调整，以评估和改善肥胖医学教育。
