Background: the success of faculty members of Medical Sciences Universities in medical education arena requires qualification and capabilities authentication in relation with education.  In order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. One of the appropriate approaches is “Competency Based Training” (CBT). In this method, competencies...

Teacher training programmes are necessary assets in faculty development. Few data exist on their long-term effects on participants' teaching skills. Our aim was to study participants' didactic competencies up to four years after attending a newly established faculty development workshop at Hamburg Medical School. Of the 322 participants who attended our teacher training between 2006 and 2009, 3...

Background: Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses (WOCNs) in Japan have received high praise for the outcomes of nursing activities. It is important for WOCNs not only to practice and obtain education but also to continuously expand and develop in their roles. Therefore, maintaining and improving professional qualities and abilities is an issue. However, the competency of WOCN to become an exper...

Competency standards document the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for competent performance. This study develops competency standards for dietitians in order to substantiate an approach to competency standard development. Focus groups explored the current and emerging purpose, role, and function of the profession, which were used to draft competency standards. Consensus was then sough...

It is critical for all students to become skilled users of a variety of software and hardware applications. It is particularly important for students training to become educators because their employers will expect them to be more knowledgeable and comfortable with instructional technologies than the students they teach. To facilitate skill development, a syllabus was designed to incorporate al...

Clinical faculty often struggle to design competency demonstrations that promote quality learning experiences. A nursing program in Oregon combined mental health and community health nursing practica and required well-planned, integrated competency demonstrations. This requirement became the impetus for students to promote the health of clients and learn clinical concepts that are difficult to ...

We examine how the confluence of competition and upstream innovation influences downstream firms’ profit-maximizing strategies. In particular, we analyze how, in light of these forces, the downstream firm sets the price of the product over its life cycle. We focus on personal computers (PCs) and introduce two novel data sets that describe prices and sales in the industry. Our main result is tha...