Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...

evidence-based medicine (ebm) is becoming an integral component of graduate medical education competency and a requirement for grad medical education practice-based learning core competency. this study tries to compare the efficacy of conferences utilizing small-group discussions with the traditional conference method in enhancing ebm competency. the participants in this randomized controlled t...

What role does knowledge have in competency based higher education? Many Dutch Universities of Professional Education are struggling with the implementation of competency-based curricula. In view of current practice, this article distinguishes between two sorts of knowledge: vocationrelated knowledge and context-free knowledge. In higher education curricula are developed with the aid of various...

PURPOSE There have been critiques that competency training, which defines the roles of a physician by simple, discrete tasks or measurable competencies, can cause students to compartmentalize and focus mainly on being assessed without understanding how the interconnected competencies help shape their role as future physicians. Losing the meaning and interaction of competencies can result in a f...

We are in the early stages of a learning revolution. New learning pathways have been forged by intense competition from organizations whose sole purpose is to deliver learning (anytime and anywhere) and by rapid advances in information technology. Forged by expediency, these paths no longer lead automatically to institutions of higher education. Instead they lead most directly to learning oppor...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

BACKGROUND Evaluations of clinical assessments that use judgement-based methods have frequently shown them to have sub-optimal reliability and internal validity evidence for their interpretation and intended use. The aim of this study was to enhance that validity evidence by an evaluation of the internal validity and reliability of competency constructs from supervisors' end-of-term summative a...

Outcome-focused, competency-based educational curricula have become the norm in residency training programs. The Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) framework is one example of such a curriculum. However, models for incorporating all the competencies in everyday clinical practice have been difficult to accomplish. In this manuscript, a CanMEDS, competency-structured,...