Quality and structure of postgraduate medical training and educational experiences in undergraduate and postgraduate training play amajor role in career decisions of young medical graduates [14], [19], [23], [28]. They consider structuredmandatory and challenging postgraduate training programmes delivered by experienced trainers with high training competencies as important factors of attractive...

CONTEXT Education in simulated learning environments (SLEs) has grown rapidly across health care professions, yet no substantive randomised controlled trial (RCT) has investigated whether SLEs can, in part, substitute for traditional clinical education. METHODS Participants were physiotherapy students (RCT 1, n = 192; RCT 2, n = 178) from six Australian universities undertaking clinical educa...

Background: Medical graduates should acquire the necessary skills to provide desirable health services. So it is necessary for medical schools to evaluate their students according expected competencies. The aim of present study was to investigate the viewpoints of medical graduates toward their achievement to these expected capabilities. Methods: This research was a cross sectional study carrie...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to examine changes in quality of life, disease-specific functioning, and psychosocial competencies of children and adolescents (8-16 years of age) with anorectal malformations or Hirschsprung disease and to identify predictors of change in quality of life by testing an explanatory model in which background variables explained changes in quality of life vi...

UNLABELLED The National Board Dental Hygiene Examination program is a part of the process for licensing dental hygienists. The examination assesses theoretical and applied knowledge in the basic biomedical, dental, and dental hygiene sciences, as well as community health. Standards for licensure examinations recommend that test publishers demonstrate a relationship between examination content a...

Background: Competency affects several aspects of the quality of nursing care and has a significant contribution to the patient outcomes. There exists little up to date information concerning nursing profession as well as how nurses employing in clinical settings in Vietnam learn to improve their own competencies. Objectives: To investigate the ways Vietnamese nurses practicing in clinical sett...

PURPOSE There have been critiques that competency training, which defines the roles of a physician by simple, discrete tasks or measurable competencies, can cause students to compartmentalize and focus mainly on being assessed without understanding how the interconnected competencies help shape their role as future physicians. Losing the meaning and interaction of competencies can result in a f...

Methods The nurse’s competencies and knowledge about using literature based on research, was examined through an anonymous questionnaire. The purpose was to identify the nurse’s competencies and knowledge about evidence-based medicine and evidence-based nursing. A steering committee with representatives from the department’s leadership and the clinical specialist has been collected. They choose...