OBJECTIVE to develop and validate national competency standards for midwives in Australia. This study was part of a commissioned national research project to articulate the scope of practice of Australian midwives and to develop national competency standards to assist midwives to deliver safe and competent midwifery care. DESIGN a multi-method, staged approach was used to collect data through...

When graduating from veterinary school, veterinary professionals must be ready to enter the complex veterinary profession. Therefore, one of the major responsibilities of any veterinary school is to develop training programmes that support students' competency development on the trajectory from novice student to veterinary professional. The integration of learning and assessment in the clinical...

the aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. this paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success in a company to achieve both the mi...

Cultural competency has been lauded as an effective, direct intervention to address health care disparity issues, and there is much empirical and clinical evidence to support the utility of cultural competency training. The major criticism of this evidence is the paucity of content validation studies of the competency construct itself. This literature review addresses what has been repeatedly i...

BACKGROUND Colonoscopy is a difficult cognitive-perceptual-motor task. Designing an appropriate instructional program for such a task requires an understanding of the knowledge, skills and attitudes underpinning the competency required to perform the task. Cognitive task analysis techniques provide an empirical means of deriving this information. METHODS Video recording and a think-aloud prot...

BACKGROUND Concern about patient safety and physician competence was highlighted by the Institute of Medicine report, revealing the prevalence of fatal medical errors. There is also awareness that technical difficulties specific to laparoendoscopic surgery can cause medical errors. Reported herein is a review of the evidence pertaining to objective assessment of core competency components in la...

The aim of this study was to ascertain which competencies health information managers (HIMs) working in public hospital positions perceived were important for effective performance. A health information management competency model was developed based on the Boyatzis (1982) managerial competency model and modified to take into account previous health information management competency documents a...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to analyze the content and volume of literature that has been written on cultural competency in emergency medicine (EM) since its educational imperative was first described by the Institute of Medicine in 2002. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive literature search through the PubMed portal in January 2015 to identify all articles and reviews that ...