introduction: programs must demonstrate that their residents are taught and assessed in professionalism. most programs struggle with finding viable ways to teach and assess this critical competency. uthscsa family and community medicine residency developed an innovative option for interactive learning and assessment of residents in this competency which would be transferrable to other programs ...

Public and private sector managers are starting to talk of ‘systems thinking’ as one of the key business competencies of their staff. At the same time, training managers in some enterprises, including the Defence Organisation, are demanding that University management schools introduce a more structured ‘competency based’ approach. But what are ‘systems thinking competencies’? Is “competency bas...

in this article, the ontology based approach for modeling and management of profiles and competencies in virtual organization breeding environment (vbe) is presented. the main aim of creating the profile and competency ontology of vbe participants is utilizing them in the development of the intelligent agent for choosing the best partners in order to perform the research projects in the informa...

Introduction: Nursing students require highly specialized competencies to accurately determine patients' states and to predict and cope with problems that may occur during nursing care. This study explores the definition, domains, and levels of nursing students' competency. Methods: This study was a systematic review of nursing students’ competencies in E...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate national competency standards for midwives in Australia. This study was part of a commissioned national research project to articulate the scope of practice of Australian midwives and to develop national competency standards to assist midwives to deliver safe and competent midwifery care. DESIGN a multi-method, staged approach was used to collect data through...

Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation especially when considering individual long-term development planning and organisational learning. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across boarders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency ...

Although literature suggests that providing culturally sensitive care promotes positive health outcomes for patients, undergraduate medical education currently does not provide adequate cultural competency training. At most schools, cultural competency, as a formal, integrated, and longitudinal thread within the overall curriculum, is still in its infancy. In this article, the authors summarize...

This paper presents a novel approach to the enterprise competence management and a case study. This approach is based on a model called CRAI (Competency-Resource-Aspect-Individual) which allows representing enterprise personnel's competencies. On the other hand, the paper provides a generic competency management process in which the CRAI model plays the central role. The proposed case study is ...