background: infants are the most vulnerable people with special needs in natural disasters. since midwives are responsible for providing reproductive health services to infants in disastrous situations, assessing their professional competence is of great importance. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in tehran, iran. a total of 361 midwives were selected by cluster ...

There is increasing political and consumer pressure on professions, which have a degree of monopoly of service, to ensure that their members are competent to practise. One means of maintaining competence is the requirement of professionals to undertake professional development activities throughout their practising careers. Options reviewed are: voluntary attendance at continuing education acti...

The professional competence of experts in helping professions was investigated centers for social work, Republika Srpska. Using a questionnaire, 100 from the fields psychology, pedagogy and work were questioned. Their communication skills, mediation teamwork skills ability to empathize investigated, as well connection between level competences education, age length experience. results showed th...

Many of the assumptions about the "adult, self-directed learner" that form the basis of the current model of formal continuing education delivery are largely unsupported by the literature. Yet most practitioners maintain competence despite the apparent flaws in this model. After elaborating a set of problematic assumptions regarding the current construction of the self-regulating professional l...

UNLABELLED Pharmacy in Moldova is undergoing a period of transition. The professional practice is adjusting to a market-oriented economy from the previous Soviet system. The pharmaceutical sector has been liberalised giving rise to a significant increase in the number of community pharmacies. This has led to some adverse effects on the profession of pharmacy with pharmacists having considerable...

In this article, we present the andragogical research project and evaluation of its results using nonparametric statistical methods and the semantic differential method. The presented research was realized in the years 2012-2013 in the dissertation of I. Žeravíková: Analysis of professional competencies of lecturer and creating his competence profile (Žeravíková 2013), and its purpose was based...