OBJECTIVES To assess the level of consensus amongst an international panel of public health nutrition leaders regarding the essential competencies required for effective public health nutrition practice. DESIGN A modified Delphi study involving three rounds of questionnaires. SUBJECTS A panel of 20 public health nutrition experts from seven countries in the European Union, the USA and Austr...

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The idea of competency-based training (CBT) seems to have entered medical education with a speed and impact that has outperformed problem-based learning in the 1980s and 1990s. Within less than 10 years, the CanMEDS competencies in Canada, the ACGME competencies in the United States and similar frameworks in other countries have been introduced for postgraduate medical training countrywide, and...

The phenomenon of client pressure on the behavior accountants in Indonesia producing quality audit results is interesting to study, especially Java and Bali which can represent condition Indonesian economy. This study examines effect fees, auditor competence, professional ethics skepticism quality. sample framework based 2020 directory Association Professional Accountants, with a total 781 Publ...

Students taking programmes of study leading to registration as a nurse or other health and social care professional, must be assessed in practice to ensure that they are competent in a range of skills. As practice placements become more difficult to source, the use of inter-professional assessment is becoming an increasingly important facet of assessment for students in health and social care. ...

This poster reports on early progress of the Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project to develop a competency-based referatory of learning resources for teaching and learning Linked Data practices in design, implementation, and management. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute for Museums and Library Services (IMLS), the project builds on a 2011 IMLS Planning Grant that explor...

the current study aims to examine and identify competency dimensions, factors and indices for managers of science and technology parks of iranian public university in order to present of a conceptual model. the targeted population consisted of two parts including experts in the field and managers and experts in science and technology parks. for this purpose, exploratory method was used and data...

The professional development of public health leaders requires competency-based instruction to increase their ability to address complex and changing demands for critical services. This article reviews the development of the Leadership Competency Framework by the National Public Health Leadership Development Network and discusses its significance. After reviewing pertinent literature and existi...

Background An assessment in 2011 identified the need to incorporate supply chain management (SCM) in academic curricula for health care workers in Tanzania. As a result, a competency-based curricula was developed for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinical officers and nursing cadres. An initiative to train pharmacy graduates in SCM as part of their professional training was thereafter emba...

quality and safety of patient care remarkably depend on the competency of healthcare providers. as predominant caregivers, nurses crucially influence the quality of patient care (1). on the other hand, as major educational organizations, nursing schools must offer competent expertise to the students in order to warrant high-quality patient care. in this regard, finding efficient methods to grad...