Embracing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives in Defining Trainee Competence

Defining stakeholder involvement in participatory design processes.

A participatory approach could be used to implement work place or organizational improvements. However, the question is which participants should be involved and how. In this paper the theoretical involvement in different steps of a linear stepwise approach is described and compared with the latest projects of 300 practitioners. From a theoretical point of view ergonomists and employees play an...

“Tool Clinics” – Embracing Multiple Perspectives in Privacy Research and Privacy-Sensitive Design

Computer scientists or engineers are continually asked to “solve problems” or “improve” existing situations, by selecting from available design features to produce the “best” technical solution. For example, a software developer faced with the problem of securing data must choose between different encryption algorithms – each with different characteristics. Factors such as strength of encryptio...

Defining and assessing professional competence.

CONTEXT Current assessment formats for physicians and trainees reliably test core knowledge and basic skills. However, they may underemphasize some important domains of professional medical practice, including interpersonal skills, lifelong learning, professionalism, and integration of core knowledge into clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To propose a definition of professional competence, to rev...

Embracing multiple definitions of learning.

Definitions of learning vary widely across disciplines, driven largely by different approaches used to assess its occurrence. These definitions can be better reconciled with each other if each is recognized as coherent with a common conceptualization of learning, while appreciating the practical utility of different learning definitions in different contexts.

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives