We frame these questions by considering the presence or absence of physical co-presence in learning environments. We find that there are advantages and limitations to each when it comes to promoting cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies, which are each needed for deep learning. With physical co-presence, the promotion of these competencies depends on the teacher, curriculum d...

Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms’ innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry suggest that firms that craft organizational competen...

This article reports on the outcome of a presidential initiative of 2012 American Psychological Association President Suzanne Bennett Johnson to delineate competencies for primary care (PC) psychology in six broad domains: science, systems, professionalism, relationships, application, and education. Essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes are described for each PC psychology competency. Two ...

BACKGROUND Physicians today are increasingly faced with healthcare challenges that require an understanding of global health trends and practices, yet little is known about what constitutes appropriate global health training. METHODS A literature review was undertaken to identify competencies and educational approaches for teaching global health in medical schools. RESULTS Using a pre-defin...

CONTEXT Little is known about the incorporation of integrative medicine (IM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into family medicine residency programs. OBJECTIVE The Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) approved a set of CAM/IM competencies for family medicine residencies. We hope to evaluate whether residency programs are implementing such competencies into their cur...

The ability to work with professionals from other disciplines to deliver collaborative, patient-centred care is considered a critical element of professional practice requiring a specific set of competencies. However, a generally accepted framework for collaborative competencies is missing, which makes consistent preparation of students and staff challenging. Some authors have argued that there...

There is an uptake of organizations’ involvement in collaborative organizational structures (COS). Consistent with the resource-centric views of the firm, we suggest that the COS members need to contribute their managed IT competencies to their COS, whose synergies would create COS IT competencies. We suggest three key IT competencies for COS: proactive top management decision synergy, collabor...

There are many ways to classify the competencies of online tutors. This paper will investigate an innovative classification schema of online tutor competency based on an analysis of the current literature, with particular reference to the work of several selected authors. This schema has been developed to investigate the role these competencies play within the online learning environment. The s...