This article provides an overview of issues related to the development and evaluation of competency in psychological assessment. Specifically, we delineate the goals, ideas, and directions identified by the psychological assessment work group in the Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology. This is one of a series of articles published...

INTRODUCTION The United States continues to become more racially and ethnically diverse, and racial/ethnic minority communities encounter sociocultural barriers to quality health care, including implicit racial/ethnic bias among health care providers. In response, health care organizations are developing and implementing cultural competency curricula. Using a community-based participatory resea...

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition from a time- and process-based system to a competency-based training framework. Implementing competency-based training in postgraduate medical education poses many challenges but ultimately requires a demonstration that the learner is truly competent to progress in training or to the next phase of a prof...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The diversifying US population of children necessitates assessing the diversity of the pediatric academic workforce and its level of cultural competency training. Such data are essential for workforce and educational policies. METHODS An 8-question survey was sent to 131 US pediatric chairs to assess plans for diversity, targeted groups, departmental diversity, divers...

OBJECTIVES We assessed the effect of public health leadership training on the capacity of public health leaders to perform competencies derived from the list of "Ten Essential Public Health Services" presented in 1994 by the steering committee of the Public Health Functions Project. METHODS Graduating scholars of the Northeast Public Health Leadership Institute were surveyed to determine diff...

Competency based training has become a major thrust in the development of instruction in both civilian and military pilot training. This paper reports on a joint effort by CAE and the National Research Council to identify data analytics methods relevant for the analysis, and refinements of competency based pilot training. In particular, these methods aim to identify correlations between 1) stud...

introduction. considering the improvement of the teaching quality in the higher education, this study was planned to evaluate the field training in the faculty of management and medical informatics by students. its results will be used in planning field training of this faculty methods. a checklist with five variables was distributed among 57 students in this survey. data analysis (both descrip...

INTRODUCTION Ultrasound has become indispensable in medicine for diagnosis and therapeutics. In Internal Medicine Residency Training Program (IMRTP), there is a deficiency of a structured, competency-based musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS) training despite its growing popularity. METHODS We conducted a feasibility study for incorporating MSKUS in IMRTP and competency assessment. We recruited...

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians routinely provide dementia care, but may lack the clinical skills and awareness of available resources to provide optimal care. We conducted a community-based pilot dementia training intervention designed to both improve clinical competency and increase utilization of local dementia care services. METHODS Physicians (N = 29) and affiliated staff (N = 24) par...

The introduction of competency-based postgraduate medical training, as recently stimulated by national governing bodies in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and other countries, is a major advancement, but at the same time it evokes critical issues of curricular implementation. A source of concern is the translation of general competencies into the practice of clin...