BACKGROUND Few studies have been performed to inform how best to teach evidence-based medicine (EBM) to medical trainees. Current evidence can only conclude that any form of teaching increases EBM competency, but cannot distinguish which form of teaching is most effective at increasing student competency in EBM. This study compared the effectiveness of a blended learning (BL) versus didactic le...

A core mission of health professions schools is to educate and train a workforce that will be optimally prepared to provide health care and public health services for the diverse communities that they serve. It is important to create and develop a health care workforce who can understand and assist in the battle against health care disparities. For health care workers and health profession scho...

In relation to enterprise technology governance (ETG), opinions differ between there being no need for board of director involvement to there being an urgent need for such involvement. This research highlights the need for boards to provide ETG oversight of technology-related strategy, investment and risk, and to be competent in doing so. We identify a large gap between board’s awareness of the...

Ontology authoring is a non-trivial task for authors who are not proficient in logic. It is difficult to either specify the requirements for an ontology, or test their satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this problem by leveraging the ideas of competency questions and test-before software development. We first analyse real-world competency questions collected fro...

This paper analyzes employee competencies for employees with higher education in Industry 4.0. An Industry 4.0 competency model based on a behavioral oriented approach concerning three variants, namely Information Systems, Information Technology and Engineering is developed by extending the SHL Universal Competency Framework through a structured literature review and focus groups with academic ...

This work is motivated by the need to propose a model for the study of personalized hypermedia systems with a competency approach, which is one of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and General Administration of Higher Education Technology (DGEST) recommendations. We use computer agents, to construct a student model with emphasis on his learning style, mul...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a way to support work-integrated learning for knowledge work, which poses a great challenge for current research and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The authors first suggest a workplace learning context model, which has been derived by analyzing knowledge work and the knowledge sources used by knowledge workers. The authors then focus o...

BACKGROUND Health workforce competencies are considered crucial for attaining high-quality health care in the current market principles approach to the provision of health services. This study explored the competencies and the perceived competence gap of management personnel in public primary healthcare. METHODS During 2007 and 2008, 14 management teams of Belgrade primary health-care centres...