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Competency-based learning is currently the basis of the European qualifications system; however, in Latvian professional medical education its implementation requires changes in the design of education programmes, in the use of innovative learning methods and forms in order to create a set of competencies that meets the requirements of modern healthcare, individuals and society. The importance of the research is determined by several problems in the medical field and in professional medical education: lack of mid-...

Many researchers and scholars nowadays view the online environment as the ideal context for fostering transformative learning. However, although the growth of online education has resulted in a plethora of investigations, for the moment, few empirical studies exist about promoting transformative learning in online environments. This paper focuses on the application of the transformative learning model in two distinct online learning environments in higher education. The first is a traditional blended learning envi...