Perspectives of the Key Stakeholders of the Alignment and Integration of the SaudiMEDs Framework into the Saudi Medical Licensure Examination: A Qualitative Study.

The participants were knowledgeable about the SaudiMEDs and perceived the SMLE blueprint and contents to be partially aligned with the themes and domains of the SaudiMEDs competency framework. The responses suggested that additional effort is required to improve the current alignment to assess the competencies of COM graduates appropriately.