Relationships among gender, gender role orientation, grade, and perceived self-competency were examined in this study. Subjects were almost entirely Caucasian and included one hundred and ninety-four adolescents in the sixth through twelfth grades. The adolescents responded to the Children's Sex Role Inventory and the Self Perception Profile for Adolescents. Boys had higher perceived social and...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between work environment and the competency maintenance activities of occupational therapists. METHOD A survey of 121 occupational therapists in three states and interviews with 8 occupational therapists in Ohio were used. RESULTS Analysis of survey data indicated that workplace support and the degree of competency monitori...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This UME-21 project was developed to promote a variety of clinical competencies during a 12-week medicine clerkship for third-year students. METHODS The clerkship is divided into three 4-week rotations--two inpatient rotations and one outpatient rotation. During each rotation, students select a competency, review the module about that competency on the clerkship Web ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Competency-based training and assessment are increasingly replacing the traditional structure- and process-based model of medical education. The web-based Essential Bronchoscopist (EB) is an open access, laddered, competency-based curriculum of question-answer sets pertaining to basic bronchoscopic knowledge, accessible in five languages. The purpose of this study was t...

Abstract Today, fourth industrial revolution is causing tremendous uncertainty. These developments transform the way we live, and work. The work environment change job profiles therefore requires employees with a wide range of competencies. Digital inclusion today depends largely more on competences than access to technologies. While there are challenges in getting high skilled jobs for local w...

Outstanding researchers are the first resource for national science and technology development, competency is one of important reasons affecting performance outstanding researchers. Currently, there a lack strong explanations in China. Therefore, this study uses grounded theory method to code biographies 17 Chinese scientists layer by construct model The results show that: includes five dimensi...