About

Marcia Docherty, PhD is scholar practitioner with significant experience in professional education and health care service delivery. She has over 20 years of experience with competency-based education (CBE), primarily in the health field across colleges, universities, private career colleges, and health authorities. At the heart of her work is a commitment to innovative, evidence-informed teaching and learning practices through research and evaluation practices.

Marcia has extensive experience:

Teaching in and managing regulated, competency-based, and nationally accredited programs.
Leading numerous CBE course and program designs.
Participating in competency profile development.
Submitting national accreditation reports.
Surveying CBE programs for accreditation purposes.

Through this extensive, combination of practical and research experience with CBE, she has developed a unique, pragmatic understanding of the strengths and limitations of this approach. She now examines professional competence holistically with the hope of mitigating CBE misuse and abuse.