Building Community Practice Competencies Globally through the Community Tool Box

Dental Students' Competencies in Community Dentistry Course

Introduction: Graduated dentistry students ought to be competent in different fields of community dentistry such as health education, needs assessment, planning and policy making. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of community dentistry course on dental students' competencies in different fields of community dentistry through self-monitoring method in Isfahan School of dentistry. ...

The Building of a Community of Practice

The importance of Communities of Practice (CoPs) has now been evidenced and recognized by several authors on the one hand and by practitioners on the other, whether it be in educational contexts or in companies. Generally speaking, one could define a CoP as a network of people sharing a common practice, which makes a CoP a very particular kind of network. As quoted from Wenger (1998), who is on...

Cultivating informatics competencies in a community of practice.

To move the healthcare industry into the 21st century, nurses must become savvy in the use of informatics to provide optimal care to their patients. However, the relatively few formal nursing informatics programs that exist across the country are simply not adequate to meet the demands of both new and existing nurses. Informatics competencies must be incorporated into nursing curricula at entry...

Building Police/Community Relations Through Virtual Communities

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

Building Community Through Forgiveness and Celebration.