PEDIATRIC CONTENT
Medical Education and Training Within Congenital Cardiology: Current Global Status and Future Directions in A Post COVID-19 World
Cardiology in the Young, April 2021
Colin J. McMahon, Justin T. Tretter, Andrew N. Redington, Frances Bu’Lock, Liesl Zühlke, Ruth Heying, Sandra Mattos, R. Krishna Kumar, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Jonathan D. Windram,
Despite enormous strides in our field with respect to patient care, there has been surprisingly limited dialogue on how to train and educate the next generation of congenital cardiologists. This paper reviews the current status of training and evolving developments in medical education pertinent to congenital cardiology. The adoption of competency-based medical education has been lauded as a robust framework for contemporary medical education over the last two decades. However, inconsistencies in frameworks across different jurisdictions remain, and bridging gaps between competency frameworks and clinical practice has proved challenging.
