This paper reports the results of a study that investigates changes in skill requirements of information systems professionals in Singapore. The study coded representative job advertisements that appeared in the newspapers over a period of fifteen years – from 1983 to 1998. The coding results indicate that job profiles for programmers and IS managers have not changed dramatically over the years...

The present paper has two parts. The first part is a trend analysis from the period 1990– 2004 and the second part is a cross-sectional analysis from the year 2004. In both parts, the purpose was to find the most common technical skills sought in American job advertisements for software developer positions. Unlike in previous researches, also distributed technology skills were analyzed thorough...

one of the most difficult and the most common behavioral problems in people with mental retardation, from mild to severe, That adversely affect interpersonal behavior and unpleasant effect on people's moods and mental self. Social skills is a process that individuals understand and predict the behavior of others and also control their behavior and regulate social interactions.Quasi-experimental...

Objectives The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a tailor-made, non-technical skills seminar on medical student's behaviour, attitudes, and performance during simulated patient treatment. Methods Seventy-seven students were randomized to either a non-technical skills seminar (NTS group, n=43) or a medical seminar (control group, n=34). The human patient simulation was used a...

AIM This paper is a report of a review to identify the non-technical (cognitive and social) skills used by scrub nurses. BACKGROUND Recognition that failures in non-technical skills contributed to accidents in high-risk industries led to the development of research programmes to study the role of cognition and social interactions in operational safety. Recently, psychological research in oper...

BACKGROUND After almost a decade of implementing competency-based programs in postgraduate training programs, the assessment of technical skills remains more subjective than objective. National data on the assessment of technical skills during surgical training are lacking. We conducted this study to document the assessment tools for technical skills currently used in different surgical special...

The use of performance-based assessment has been extended to postgraduate education and practising doctors, despite criticism of validity. While differences in expertise at this level are easily reflected in scores on a written test, these differences are relatively small on performance-based tests. However, scores on written tests and performance-based tests of clinical competence generally sh...

Unintended harm to patients in operating theatres is common. Correlations have been demonstrated between teamwork skills and error rates in theatres. This was a single-institution uncontrolled before-after study of the effects of "non-technical" skills training on attitudes, teamwork, technical performance and clinical outcome in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA...