Cultural competency practices have been widely adopted in the mental health field because of the disparities in the quality of services delivered to ethnic minority groups. In this review, we examine the meaning of cultural competency, positions that have been taken in favor of and against it, and the guidelines for its practice in the mental health field. Empirical research that tests the bene...

introduction: systems-based practice (sbp) is one of the six competencies introduced by the acgme for physicians to provide high quality of care and also the most challenging of them in performance, training, and evaluation of medical students. this concept analysis clarifies the concept of sbp by identifying its components to make it possible to differentiate it from other similar concepts. fo...

The mastery of fundamental movement skills (FMS) has been purported as contributing to children's physical, cognitive and social development and is thought to provide the foundation for an active lifestyle. Commonly developed in childhood and subsequently refined into context- and sport-specific skills, they include locomotor (e.g. running and hopping), manipulative or object control (e.g. catc...

quality assessment in an educational activity is the most important action for improving this process and its totally or partly renewed resumption. quality assessment compares the existing and the desired situation. in the education system outcome, review the existing and desired situation is a turning point of quality assessment. therefore it is necessary to describe outcome desired situation ...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Program Requirements (PRs) for Pediatrics require that residents be able to competently perform neonatal endotracheal intubation (NET). In this issue of Pediatrics, DeMeo et al defined competency as a 75% likelihood of intubation success; only a minority of residents (23%) were able to achieve competency during the study period. Four cumu...

BACKGROUND Supportive supervision has been found to be more effective than corrective fault-oriented inspections. Uganda's Ministry of Health in 2012 implemented a comprehensive strategy (SPARS) to build medicines management capacity in public sector health facilities. The approach includes supportive supervision. This structured observational study assesses supportive supervision competency am...

BACKGROUND Responding to mandates from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA), residency programs have developed competency-based assessment tools. One such tool is the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians (ACOP) program directors' annual report. High-stakes clinical skills licensing examinations, such as the Comprehe...