%0 Journal Article %T SaudiMEDs and CanMEDs frameworks: similarities and differences %A Abdulaziz Alasmari %A Abdullah Alghamdi %A Abdulmajeed Bin Dahmash %A Abdulrahman Yousef Aldayel %A Amro K Bin Abdulrahman %A Asem M Shadid %A Hamad M Qabha %A Khalid A Bin Abdulrahman %A Mansour Almadi %A Mohammed Almasri %A Muteb Mousa Alharbi %A Saleh Aloyouny %A Yasir Alotaibi %A Yazeed Almotairy %A Yousef R Bukhari %J Archive of "Advances in Medical Education and Practice". %D 2019 %R 10.2147/AMEP.S191705 %X Background: The SaudiMEDs framework was founded and adopted by the Saudi DeansĄŻ Committee in 2011 to ensure that Saudi medical graduates learned core competencies. Meanwhile, CanMEDs was established by the Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1996 and aimed to establish the abilities and skills of all aspects of medical practice, as well as to ensure the acquisition of basic knowledge related to medical education. The main purpose of this study was to explore the similarities and differences between both frameworks %K SaudiMEDs %K CanMEDs %K framework %K competency-based education %K Saudi Arabia %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511653/