Informatics competencies of the health care workforce must meet the requirements of inter-professional process and outcome oriented provision of care. In order to help nursing education transform accordingly, the TIGER Initiative deployed an international survey, with participation from 21 countries, to evaluate and prioritise a broad list of core competencies for nurses in five domains: 1) nur...

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate ...

The AMIA biomedical informatics (BMI) core competencies have been designed to support and guide graduate education in BMI, the core scientific discipline underlying the breadth of the field's research, practice, and education. The core definition of BMI adopted by AMIA specifies that BMI is 'the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information,...

many people with disabilities choose entrepreneurship to achieve a better balance between work and life. however, people with disabilities face multiple challenges to become an entrepreneur. one of the challenges that have been constantly suggested in the literature is the lack of entrepreneurial comeptencies and proper entreprneuship education and training. accordingly, the main purpose of thi...

the main purpose of this survey was to assess research-oriented competencies (systematic inquiry and situational analysis competencies) needed by experts and evaluators in the ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed and data collected through questionnaire the reliability of which was approved through a pilot test with cronbach's coefficient alpha=0.97. validity of th...

Preamble In 2003, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) initiated an effort to define PA competencies in response to similar efforts being conducted within other health care professions and growing demand for accountability and assessment in clinical practice. The following year, representatives from three other national PA organizations, each bringing a uniqu...

Teacher training programmes are necessary assets in faculty development. Few data exist on their long-term effects on participants' teaching skills. Our aim was to study participants' didactic competencies up to four years after attending a newly established faculty development workshop at Hamburg Medical School. Of the 322 participants who attended our teacher training between 2006 and 2009, 3...

Physicians in the 21st century will increasingly interact in diverse ways with information systems, requiring competence in many aspects of clinical informatics. In recent years, many medical school curricula have added content in information retrieval (search) and basic use of the electronic health record. However, this omits the growing number of other ways that physicians are interacting wit...

The Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology was organized around eight competency-focused work groups, as well as work groups on specialties and the assessment of competence. A diverse group of psychologists participated in this multisponsored conference. After describing the background and structure of the conference, this article re...

INTRODUCTION In order to prepare the healthcare system and healthcare personnel to meet the health needs of populations affected by disasters, educational programs have been developed by numerous academic institutions, hospitals, professional organizations, governments, and non-government organizations. Lacking standards for best practices as a foundation, many organizations and institutions ha...