OBJECTIVE To explore perceptions of faculty educators regarding the importance of nontechnical competencies in veterinary graduates and the placement of nontechnical competency development in veterinary education. DESIGN Survey. SAMPLE POPULATION All faculty members at 5 North American veterinary medical institutions. PROCEDURES Participants rated the importance of 14 nontechnical compete...

Information technology plays a significant role in the accounting industry. Accounting practitioners, therefore, are expected to possess necessary IT competencies to execute the day to day activities. However, IT competencies as always been viewed as a uni-dimensional construct, where focus in on imparting technical knowledge. There is a different between the ability to operate IT and IT compet...

Medical education programmes worldwide are becoming competency-based, aiming to provide training in all aspects relevant to the future practice of physicians. These involve competencies that exceed the sole domain of medical expertise and skills, beholding i.e. communication, collaboration, ethics, and management. Although the necessity of these so called ‘generic’ competencies has become clear...

The purpose of this project was to describe the process used for the development of core competencies for paraprofessional nutrition educators in Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE). The development process included the efforts of an expert panel of state and multicounty FSNE leaders to draft the core competencies and the validation of those competencies by FSNE paraprofessionals. The result ...

INTRODUCTION Feedback, particularly real-time feedback, is critical to resident education. The emergency medicine (EM) milestones were developed in 2012 to enhance resident assessment, and many programs use them to provide focused resident feedback. The purpose of this study was to evaluate EM residents' level of interest in receiving real-time feedback on each of the 23 competencies/sub-compet...

The objective of the present study was to identify managerial competencies. This study reviewed existing managerial competencies in a cultural context resulting in the development of a broad based psychometrically sound leadership questionnaire. The unit of analysis of the research was a theoretical and experimental research related to managerial competencies, provided from seventeen Iranian an...

Purpose: These role competencies have been developed to assist educational programs in determining and/or evaluating the typical responsibilities for a fieldwork educator associated with an occupational therapy program. The competencies are based on the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Standards for Continuing Competence. These role competencies are statements describing the typical ...

This workshop will review the history of the TIGER initiative in order to set the framework for an understanding of international informatics competencies. We will include a description of clinical nursing informatics programs in 37 countries as well as the results of a recent survey of nursing competencies in order to further discussions of internationally agreed-upon competency definitions. T...

Core competencies have long been discussed and developed in the literature of library science education and information systems education. However, for information management, a blending of these two disciplines, there has been much less discussion of core competencies. The purpose of this paper is to consolidate the sparse literature on information management educational competencies and to su...

cies of the students are less clear. In this study, we evaluated the competencies of graduate social work students in China and examined factors that impacted the competencies based on learning theory. Findings indicated that the Chinese students rated significantly lower on all core competencies than their counterparts in the United States. Knowledge and skills learned in class, field placemen...