YES Better training produces better doctors. That is what the Triple C curriculum is all about—graduating family physicians who are better equipped to deal with the evolving requirements and realities of practice in the coming decades.1 These realities include the following2: • quality and accountability requirements; • interprofessional collaborative practice models; • advances in information ...

Neither psychiatry nor rehabilitation has been able to develop acceptable criteria for diagnostic-related groups. The difficulty.in both instances may be related to an inability to clearly state intake criteria as well as the functional outcomes produced by different levels of care. The need for care is largely determined by the functional difficulties a person has in managing their own affairs...

Inequality and exclusion are characteristic of the experience of UK South Asian communities. In health care, community needs are often not addressed by health and social welfare services. An increase in cultural competency is now part of identified policy. The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which there is evidence of cultural competency amongst professionals concerning South Asia...

An initial study examined multiple dimensions of preschool competency (cognitive, social, approaches to learning, and physical/motor) using both variable-oriented and person-oriented approaches, with a Head Start sample (McWayne, Fantuzzo & McDermott, 2004). Variableoriented analyses yielded three higher order classroom competency dimensions: 1) General Classroom Competence, 2) Specific Approac...

development in the social aspects of each society is a very important academic and practical field. in the information revolutionage, information and communication technologies are penetrating all levels of societies and have catalyzed the process of development in every country and encourage many scholars to study how these technologies affect the social, political and economic aspects of each...

background: nurses’ clinical competency plays an important role in the care of preterm infants. on the other hand, burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing the nurses’ efficiency. with regard to the importance of the role of nurses, and the vulnerability of the infants, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ burnout and clinical competency ...

By 18 months children demonstrate a range of social-cognitive skills that can be considered important precursors to more advanced forms of social understanding such as theory of mind. Although individual differences in social cognition have been linked to neurocognitive maturation, sociocultural models of development suggest that environmental influences operate in the development of children's...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

Despite major advances in medicine and public health during the past few decades, disparities in health and health care persist. Racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States are at disproportionate risk of being uninsured, lacking access to care, and experiencing worse health outcomes from preventable and treatable conditions. As reducing these disparities has become a national priority, ...