OBJECTIVES to identify the agreement of faculty affiliated with Brazilian higher education institutions about the global health competencies needed for undergraduate nursing students' education and whether these competencies were covered in the curriculum offered at the institution where they were teaching. METHOD exploratory-descriptive study, involving 222 faculty members who answered the B...

Integrating interprofessional education (IPE) activities and curricular components in health professions education has been emphasized recently by the inclusion of accreditation standards across disciplines. The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) established IPE competencies in 2009, but evaluating how activities link to competencies has not been investigated in depth. The purpose...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that development of competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders requires program design and teaching methods focused on learning. This is the introductory essay to this special issue of JMD. Design/methodology/approach – Competencies are defined and an overview is provided for the eight papers that will follow with original research on...

As people transform data, information and experiences into shared corporate knowledge, the management of individual competencies has become increasingly important to knowledge intensive organisations (KIO). Knowledge gained during the normal execution of daily tasks is easily lost in the new and more dynamic business environment. The ability to find versatile employees and to be able to leverag...

.................................................................................................................. 3 1. The goals of this report on concepts of competence ..................................... 4 2. Definitions of the concepts “competence” and “competencies” .................. 4 (a) General cognitive competencies ......................................................................

Assessing applicants' personal competencies in the admission process has proven difficult because there is not an agreed-on set of personal competencies for entering medical students. In addition, there are questions about the measurement properties and costs of currently available assessment tools. The Association of American Medical College's Innovation Lab Working Group (ILWG) and Admissions...

Nursing informatics competencies are fundamental to nursing practice in all areas of nursing work, including direct patient care, administration and education. The recent activity relating to the development of nursing informatics competencies for beginning level nurses has exposed a paucity of understanding of the requirements for nursing informatics competencies for nurse educators. So, whils...

There is an enhanced focus the last few years on defining competence-based curricula rather than knowledge based curricula for engineering programs. This drive stems from competence based Human Resource Management where competencies are considered key success factors rather than acquired knowledge and skills alone. Defining learning goals in terms of (tangible) competencies requires some though...

The demand for global health educational opportunities among students and trainees in high-income countries (HICs) has led to a proliferation of available global health programs. In keeping with the drive towards competency-based medical education, many of these programs have been defining their own global health competencies. Developing such competencies presents several unique challenges, inc...

The use of competency systems for evaluation, reward, and promotion has become commonplace in many organizations in recent years. Competency development and management are widely regarded as vital tools to enhance competitiveness for organizations. The aim of this research was to distinguish the differences in competencies among high-, mediumand low-performers in the automobile industry. Data w...