Introduction: Nowadays, intense competition and technology changes make an increasing pressure to organizations and their various ways for increasing manpower productivity. Human resources are expected at this time to have greater impact on their products and services. This is the exact thing that caused competency to become an important factor in competitive environment. Competency term is use...

Introduction: Nowadays, intense competition and technology changes make an increasing pressure to organizations and their various ways for increasing manpower productivity. Human resources are expected at this time to have greater impact on their products and services. This is the exact thing that caused competency to become an important factor in competitive environment. Competency term is use...

Robert Maynard Hutchins was an educational philosopher, Dean of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and President and Chancellor of the University of Chicago in Illinois.1 Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism in education. Perennialists believe that “one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importa...

background and purpose: consideringbackground and purpose: considering the importance and necessity of competency-based education at a global level and with respect to globalization and the requirement of minimum competencies in medical fields, medical education communities and organizations worldwide have tried to determine the competencies, present frameworks and education models to respond t...

a bstract background: clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. to obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. among these observed factors, spiritual intelligence is considered as one of the most significant factors in nu...

Although competency-based education is well established in health care education, research shows that the competencies do not always match the reality of clinical workplaces. Therefore, there is a need to design feasible and evidence-based competency frameworks that fit the workplace reality. This theoretical paper outlines a competency-based framework, designed to facilitate learning, assessme...