Is it the right time to promote competency-based European Training Requirements in Ophthalmology? : a European Board of Ophthalmology survey

Dormegny, Lea (author), Hedengran, Anne (author), Prior Filipe, Helena (author), Dormegny-Jeanjean, Ludovic Christophe (author), Aclimandos, Wagih (author), Asoklis, Rimvydas (author), Atilla, Huban (author), Creuzot-Garcher, Catherine (author), Curtin, Denise (author), Cvenkel, Barbara (author)

Purpose: To report national practices and recent progress in competency-based medical education (CBME) implementation in ophthalmology across European countries. Methods: A 30-question online survey was emailed to European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) ophthalmology section delegates, European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma (EBOD) examiners and presidents of ophthalmology societies affiliated with UEMS/EBO. Results: A total of 230 ophthalmologists with an average age of 54.7 years [30-77] and from 28 countries completed the survey. Half of them had been involved as medical educators for more than 10 years. The majority (74%) exercised their educational role in a University Hospital. Ninety six percent of them dedicated less than 50% of their activity to teaching. A third dedicated more than a half of their activity to patient care. The teaching of skills reported (medical, surgical, research, attitudinal and theoretical knowledge) was significantly better applied than their assessment. While 91% of the respondents found it necessary to harmonize European Training Requirements (ETR) in ophthalmology, competency-based education concepts were rarely implemented in their country (for instance, 8% for CBME; 6% for entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and 3% for ETR). Conclusions: Despite considerable diversity in European residency programmes, post-graduate medical education leaders in ophthalmology agree on the need to find a platform for equivalence in the content of the basic training requirements that constitute the professional identity of a practicing ophthalmologist.

• Language: English
• Keywords: European Board of Ophthalmology, European Training Requirements, European Union of Medical Specialists, competency-based medical education, entrustable professional activities, ophthalmology residency curriculum
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: MF - Faculty of Medicine
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: str. 404-415
• Numbering: Vol. 103, iss. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-181259
• UDC: 617.7
• ISSN on article: 1755-3768
• DOI: 10.1111/aos.17433
• COBISS.SI-ID: 220131331
• Publication date in RUL: 02.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta ophthalmologica
• Shortened title: Acta ophthalmol.
• Publisher: Wiley, Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica Foundation
• ISSN: 1755-3768
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25996505

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Evropski odbor za oftalmologijo, Evropske zahteve za usposabljanje, Evropska zveza zdravnikov specialistov, na kompetencah temelječe medicinsko izobraževanje, zaupane poklicne dejavnosti, kurikulum specijalizacije iz oftalmologije