Creating Professional Skills through Modern Higher Education

Higher professional education

We wish to commend Patterson et al (March Journal)1 on their endeavour to describe a competency model for general practice. We fully support their view that it is important to be able to describe not only what we do but also what our patients want us to do. We are also gratified that they have provided further support for the validity of the component consultation competences contained within t...

Professional recognition: promoting recognition through the Higher Education Academy in a UK higher education institution

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Implementing evidence based health skills in practice through higher education

The promotion of a sustainable evidence-based health care practice requires multiple efforts. Since master’s level courses in health sciences in Sweden target practicing professionals, integrating knowledge and skills related to evidence-based practice into higher education is one way of reaching this goal. Here we describe the implementation of the course Evidence Based Practice, 7.5 ECTS at t...

Professional Identity in Higher Education

Research in higher education has concentrated on a number of areas, which include the values and collective identities of academic faculty, their role in higher education governance, faculty norms and socialisation processes, and the impact of change in higher education on academic roles (Rhoades 2007). While many authors advocate the types of research methodology that should be used in such in...

from higher education to professional practice