The Competency Requirements for Quantity Surveyors: Enhancing Continuous Professional Development

Competencies of Professional Quantity Surveyors in a Developing Economy

The effectiveness of consultants in meeting the needs of clients in the built environment of a developing economy is influenced by their recognition and application of context-relevant competencies. This paper presents a model of the important competencies required of those providing current quantity surveying services and discusses the critical inputs expected of key role-players. A review of ...

Continuous Professional Development for Midwives

The South African government implemented a compulsory one year community service strategy to address the shortage of human resources in the health sector since 1998. Medical practitioners (1999), dentists (2000) and pharmacists (2001) and other seven professional groups followed in 2003 and in July 2004. The nursing profession followed after the Health Minister’s announcement, the processing of...

Competency-based education is beneficial for professional development

erately cater your education to these end objectives. Many countries in the world have developed consensus on these competencies, in so-called competency frameworks. The most well-known are the frameworks from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education from the US [1], the CanMEDS framework from Canada [2] and Good Medical Practice from the UK [3]. There are many other countries in...

The Competency Model for Professional Rehabilitation Nursing.

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation nursing is practiced in various settings along the healthcare continuum. No framework is noted in the literature that defines the necessary competencies of the rehabilitation nurse. PURPOSE To develop a Competency Model for Professional Rehabilitation Nursing and its application to clinical and educational practice. METHOD/DESIGN A seven-member Association of Rehab...

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