BACKGROUND At the 2008 inaugural meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), participants discussed the rapid expansion of global health programs and the lack of standardized competencies and curricula to guide these programs. In 2013, CUGH appointed a Global Health Competency Subcommittee and charged this subcommittee with identifying broad global health core competenci...

On July 1, 2012, the Inte rnati onal Assoc iati on of Yo g a Therapists (IAYT) published Educational S tandards for the Training of Yoga Therapists. The next step in this process involved the recent publication of the Application for IAYT Accreditation of yoga therapy training programs. Accreditation recognizes that a yoga therapist training program meets IAYT’s educational standards. These acc...

INTRODUCTION Many training programmes in postgraduate medical education (PGME) have introduced competency frameworks, but the effects of this change on preparedness for practice are unknown. Therefore, we explored how elements of competency-based programmes in PGME (educational innovations, attention to competencies and learning environment) were related to perceived preparedness for practice a...

Linking the outcomes from interprofessional education to improvements in patient care has been hampered by educational assessments that primarily measure the short-term benefits of specific curricular interventions. Competencies, recently published by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), elaborate overarching goals for interprofessional education by specifying desired outcomes ...

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...

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UNLABELLED The focus of this study is the interface between nursing education and nursing care in its educative dimension. OBJECTIVE To develop a profile of competencies for nursing care education from the perspective of the subjects involved. METHOD Historical and dialectical materialism was used as the theoretical and methodological framework. Competence was addressed as the conceptual ca...

Historically, educational preparation did not address informatics competencies; thus managers, administrators, or executives may not be prepared to use or lead change in the use of health information technologies. A number of resources for informatics competencies exist, however, a comprehensive list addressing the unique knowledge and skills required in the role of a manager or administrator w...