Team-based primary care offers the potential to dramatically improve the quality and efficiency of care, but its broader adoption is hindered by an education system that trains health professions in silos. Collaborative models that educate multiple practitioners together are needed to create a new generation of health professionals able to work in efficiently functioning teams. Changes in profe...

Obtaining exemptions from professional bodies’ examinations has become important for institutions in the higher education sector and there is a growing attention to provide such exemptions to graduating students. However, incorporating necessary changes to the teaching syllabus and meeting the required changes in assessments and other areas of teaching and the related syllabus, can be difficult...

This article aims to examine professional public accreditation of educational programs as a means ensuring that higher education remains relevant the current socio-economic needs in context shifting requirements labour market, digitalization most areas life, and new challenges technical technological development. The study actualizes approaches can be used assessing quality implemented field en...

T oday’s fast-moving societal, economic and technological changes are reshaping the medical profession. The movement of both patients and doctors within the European Union (EU) has focused even greater attention on the competence of doctors and their fitness to practice. HORSLEY et al. [1] have described the variation between continuing professional development systems across EU countries, argu...

molecular diagnostic methods have played and continuing to have a critical role in clinical laboratories in recent years. therefore, standardization is an evolutionary process that needs to be upgrade with increasing scientific knowledge, improvement of the instruments and techniques. the aim of this study was to design a quality assurance program in order to have similar conditions for all med...

The accreditation of information technology executive officers is being approached in this article as a problem of multicriteria decision analysis of professional skills, studies and vocational training. The proposed approach includes the analysis and modelling of the qualitative criteria that fall into the problem as well as the implementation of a set of multicriteria aggregation-disaggregati...

Debates over models of professional training have occurred in several health disciplines, including psychology. Currently, clinical competencies form the backbone of training in clinical psychology and in standards for the accreditation of such training programs, with sample domains including ethical and legal issues, assessment, intervention, and experience with a diversity of clients across c...

BACKGROUND Employers have long been concerned about the professional qualifications of their employees. Decision makers in the health sciences are no exception, particularly now that they are seriously considering the improvement and full accreditation of continuing education as part of the planned European convergence. METHOD Medical and nursing professionals were questioned about their view...

Competent and trustworthy physicians who act for the benefit of patients naturally embrace quality improvement. As mentioned in my article, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education lists “accountability,” “commitment to excellence,” and “responsiveness” in its definition of professionalism. These attributes and behaviors are necessary for quality improvement. The Physician Chart...

PURPOSE A curriculum development model is presented to examine the processes necessary to develop new programs or evaluate existing programs within the philosophy of outcomes-based education in nursing, especially in the context of accreditation. The philosophy of outcomes-based education is to produce individuals who can demonstrate the evidence of competencies in designated areas of education...