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Record W4408842356 · doi:10.5489/cuaj.9163

Is competence by design any better than excellence by accident?

2025· article· en· W4408842356 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Andrew E. MacNeily

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Urological Association Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDesign Education and Practice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExcellenceCompetence (human resources)PsychologyAccident (philosophy)EngineeringComputer sciencePolitical scienceSocial psychologyPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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U rology was the second specialty cohort to adopt competency-based medical education (CBME) in 2018.The consensus of the Urology Specialty Committee leading up to implementation was that we were a relatively small, innovative, and flexible specialty that should jump on board early and have an influence on the educational frameworks.This approach was perceived to be superior to having pre-established templates imposed upon us down the road.The creation of the Urology CBME framework was laborious and contentious, with many stakeholders from around the country contributing.The resulting document suites and entrusted professional activities (EPAs) were imperfect as we rolled out the initiative.The results of the survey published in this month's issue of CUAJ clearly reflect those imperfections. 1 For example, most respondents are dissatisfied with CBD (69%) owing to a host of factors that include evaluation fatigue and a perceived lack of improvement in patient care and safety.There has been no apparent change in the pathway to graduation or a de-emphasis on time-based learning and examinations (these were the main selling points of CBD after all!).In addition, the majority of faculty feel that the EPAs don't reflect actual clinical practice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.024
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.079
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.087
Threshold uncertainty score0.173

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0240.079
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.028
Scholarly communication0.0140.015
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0060.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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