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Among the factors challenging the competencies of the actors in the field are the exercise of population- based responsibility arising from amendments to the Act Respecting Health Services and Social Services in 2003, the deployment of the PNSP at all levels of intervention, and the importance of engaging all actors to promote prevention and take action on the determinants of health. [...] For example, each step of the process from needs analysis to implementation-as well as development of objectives or competencies, content structuring, the choice of teaching methods and system testing-forms the basis for continuous professional development in the faculties of medicine and the accreditation criteria of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Collège des m [...] Educator's role Content expert Skills development coach Transmitter of knowledge Resources The educator and his knowledge The environment as a problem used Literature on the subject of study The environment as source of The environment as an example knowledge Pedagogical How should I pass on the knowledge How will the students learn? [...] Institut national de santé publique du Québec 19 The Competency-based Approach A Lever for Changing Public Health Practices in Québec Nguyen and Blais (2007) explain that in the 1960s, medical education curricula adapted to the objectives-based approach under the influence of the fields of education and sociology. [...] The authors reviewed note that objectives-based pedagogy sometimes led to the development of lists of excessively detailed objectives exposing learners to the risk of fragmented learning, at the expense of more comprehensive and meaningful representations.