In “Competency to Stand Trial in Preadjudicated and Petitioned Juvenile Defendants,” Baerger et al. report the results of their investigation of competency to stand trial of juveniles charged with various offenses. The findings support the expected positive correlations between age and competency and cognitive ability and competency. The importance of the paper, however, lies in its contributio...

Background: the success of faculty members of Medical Sciences Universities in medical education arena requires qualification and capabilities authentication in relation with education.  In order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. One of the appropriate approaches is “Competency Based Training” (CBT). In this method, competencies...

the relationship betweennurses' quality of work life and their clinical competency     habibzadeh h [1] *, ghorbanzadek [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , mohamadpor y [4]     received: 3feb, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : high quality of work life (qwl) is known as basic prerequisite for empowering human resources in health system. while nurses have a significant posit...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive policies for rural retention of medical doctor and other health professional, including education strategy and mandatory service, have been implemented in Thailand since the 1970s. This study compared the rural attitudes, intention to fulfil mandatory rural service and competencies between medical graduates' from two modes of admission, normal and special tracks. METH...

the purpose of research was analyzing attitude of agricultural high school educators in khouzestan province, iran regarding sustainable agriculture. the method of research was correlative descriptive. all agricultural high school educators in khouzestan province (n=55) were selected for participation in the study. a questionnaire was developed to gather information regarding attitude of educato...

Competency is a topic of great interest to educators and administrators in practice disciplines, particularly health care disciplines such as nursing. This article focuses on the role of competency in nursing. Through a concept analysis process, various elements of competency were assessed. The defining attributes of competency are the application of skills in all domains for the practice role,...

In order to establish and maintain IT empowered cooperation between universities and industrial organizations; on the one hand universities should be informed about trends in the labour market, and on the other hand industrial organizations should have an insight into trends of knowledge development in universities. Furthermore, taking into consideration that a competency is becoming a kind of ...

Using a theoretical cultural competency model, the effectiveness of a cultural competency learning assignment was examined to determine: 1) students' cultural competency levels as reflected through the assignment, and 2) the effectiveness of the assignment as a cultural competency learning activity. Third-year family medicine clerkship students completed a required project to research and refle...