Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ comp...

As nurse educators prepare new graduates for practice, part of the challenge is to ensure that these nurses are capable of functioning in a broad continuum of care with increased responsibilities. To identify competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates in today's health care environment and determine whether these competencies fall into particular dimensions, a cross-sectional survey des...

During the last decade, cultural competency has received a great deal of attention in health care and the literature of many fields, including education, social services, law, and health care. The dental education literature provides little information regarding status, strategies, or guiding principles of cultural competency education in U.S. dental schools. This study was an attempt to descri...

background and purpose: to investigate how much the method of observation agrees with a standardised review of evidence of clinical examination, for the assessment of clinical otoscopic competence. methods: 65 medical students took part in an objective structured clinical examination (osce) station using patients with real pathology. examiners assessed otoscopic competency in tympanic membrane ...

YES Better training produces better doctors. That is what the Triple C curriculum is all about—graduating family physicians who are better equipped to deal with the evolving requirements and realities of practice in the coming decades.1 These realities include the following2: • quality and accountability requirements; • interprofessional collaborative practice models; • advances in information ...

It delivers an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of optimizing technology to foster quality of patient care and support population health initiatives. Based on the requirements of the DNP Essential IV Core Competency for Informatics and aligning with federal policy health initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, the book describes models of information techn...

It delivers an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of optimizing technology to foster quality of patient care and support population health initiatives. Based on the requirements of the DNP Essential IV Core Competency for Informatics and aligning with federal policy health initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, the book describes models of information techn...

This chapter introduces a new approach in organizational Competency Management which is based on Korossy’s competence performance approach and which rests on the central idea of connecting competencies to actual job performance. Such an approach has several important benefits when compared to more traditional approaches. First, it brings competency modeling and assessment more closely to the ac...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties and its member boards introduced the six domains of physician competency in 1999. This initiated a national dialogue concerning the elements of competency of the physician, and incorporation of these elements into the framework of evaluation of residents and fellows, as well as the edu...