Framework Plan for Medical Training
Each umc offers bachelor’s and master’s programmes leading to a degree in medicine. The content and general learning outcomes that the programme must meet are described in the Medical Training Framework Plan (Raamplan Artsopleiding) drawn up by UMCNL.
The Framework Plan for Medical Education describes the final qualifications of Dutch medical programmes. The central question in the 2020 Framework Plan is: “What are the most important competencies that doctors will need to have in 2025?” With this latest version of the framework plan, Dutch medical programmes are making medical education future-proof. The result: doctors who are trained to meet the challenges of the healthcare sector.
Framework themes
Important themes in the 2020 Framework include prevention and avoiding unnecessary care, the importance of a person-centred approach, and treating citizens and patients even more as partners.
The 2020 Framework Plan also devotes considerable attention to the following three topics:
1. Innovation in healthcare
Pressure on the accessibility and affordability of the healthcare system is increasing. This is due to social changes such as ageing, migration, socio-cultural diversity and increasing developments in medical technology. Healthcare professionals must take into account the differences between patients and pay attention to the usefulness, accessibility and affordability of healthcare. For example, patients are sometimes better off being treated elsewhere than in hospital. Plus: should everything that is possible be done? All this requires doctors who can contribute to innovation in healthcare.
2. Lifelong learning
Knowledge is constantly evolving, leading to new technologies, digitisation, and artificial intelligence, among other things. That is why the framework emphasises the competencies necessary for lifelong learning, in order to be able to continuously respond to technological changes, among other things.
3. Careers outside the hospital
Around 70% of doctors do not work in hospitals, but outside them, as general practitioners, in social medicine or preventive healthcare. That is why this framework also addresses career prospects outside specialist medical care. Doctors outside hospitals are becoming increasingly important in responding to society’s healthcare needs, given the challenges facing society.