BACKGROUND The physicians' competency is an important public health issue around the world. Several international organizations have taken the lead in examining the competencies required to be a physician. The purpose of this study is to identify subgroups of physicians' competency based upon the importance results of competency evaluation and provide a scientific basis for the qualitative rese...

Pediatric cardiac anesthesiology has evolved as a subspecialty of both pediatric and cardiac anesthesiology and is devoted to caring for individuals with congenital heart disease ranging in age from neonates to adults. Training in pediatric cardiac anesthesia is a second-year fellowship with variability in both training duration and content and is not accredited by the Accreditation Council on ...

The current study, using a factor level analysis approach, validity of the Social Emotional Development Instrument (SED education. Although there are a multitude of models and measures that borrow from the premise of emotional intelligence (EI), very few current instruments focus exclusiv developmental path of social emotional competenc prior validity studies with these measures fail to include...

In the wake of prominent theoreticians in developmental science, whose contributions we review in this article, many developmental psychologists came to endorse a systems approach to understanding how the individual, as it develops, establishes functional relationships to social ecological contexts that from birth to school entry rapidly increase in complexity. The concept of developmental casc...

Background/Study aim The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) recommends that trainees complete 150 endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures before assessing competency. However, this recommendation is largely based on limited evidence and expert opinion. With new evidence suggesting that this historical threshold is underestimating training requirements, we evaluated the learni...

Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...

how to cite this article: yaghini o, kelishadi r, keikha m, niknam n, sadeghi s, najafpour e, ghazavi mr. prevalence of developmental delay in apparently normal preschool children in isfahan, central iran. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):17-23. abstract objective developmental delay screening is essential in pediatric medicine. the purpose of this study was to estimate the developmental d...

In this article we will discuss the integration of developmental patterning mechanisms with waves of competency that control the ability of a homogeneous field of cells to react to pattern forming cues and generate spatially heterogeneous patterns. We base our discussion around two well known patterning events that take place in the early embryo: somitogenesis and feather bud formation. We outl...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Outcome Project has shifted the focus of residents' education to competency-based outcomes of learning. The challenge of meaningful assessment of learner competence has stimulated interest in the Dreyfus and Dreyfus Model, a framework for assessing skill acquisition that describes developmental stages beginning with novice and progressing...

background: nurses’ clinical competency plays an important role in the care of preterm infants. on the other hand, burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing the nurses’ efficiency. with regard to the importance of the role of nurses, and the vulnerability of the infants, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ burnout and clinical competency ...