DIRECTORS OF RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMS ARE now familiar with the expectations for learning and assessment within 6 core competencies, as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Although the field of medical education has made great strides in developing innovative curricula within the competency framework, a lack of operational definitions continues to impede pro...

nowadays, technological development and the appearance of new informational and communicational devices have been lead to new methods for communication and generating and storing of data. the growth of using of these methods in commercial and daily connection has caused a new version of evidence called electronic evidence. although the nature of electronic and paper evidence are different, the ...

This study examined occupational therapy (OT) practitioners’ and OT students’ perceptions of the importance of 12 specific OT-related entry-level competency skills and the number of weeks required to consistently demonstrate skills for entry-level competency. The results indicated that, on average, practitioners (n = 39) and students (n = 38) agreed that all of the items were important. However...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to design and validate a high school technological competency curriculum model. Methodology: This study had an integrated strategy. To answer the questions, the research was conducted in four phases. The first phase was conducted with a qualitative approach and the other phases were conducted with a quantitative approach. In the first phase of this research, ...

C ultural competency is a term that has become ubiquitous within medical education. It has been placed within the core competency of professionalism, and cross-cultural communication skills have been identified as one of the ways to address healthcare disparities among cultural and ethnic groups. This case highlights the need for cultural competency and places the argument within an ethical par...

although the history of communication is as old as history of human society, the speed and volume of communication with the advent of electronic era in the 19th century created a revolution in the communication technology. at a time when prussia was traversing the path of industrialization and the number of companies investing in different industries was increasing by the day, the company of si...

purpose: with the entrance of information and communication technologies (ict) in the context of libraries and with the development of electronic services, the evaluation of these kinds of services has become more important. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of electronic services at the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad (fum) form the point of view of librarians –...

Inter-organizational communication has been documented as a critical factor in promoting strategic collaboration among firms. In this paper, we seek to extend the stream of research in supply chain management by systematically investigating the antecedents and performance outcomes of inter-organizational communication. Specifically, inter-organizational communication is proposed as a relational...

being one of the most effective tools for educational system improvement, educational technology plays an important role in learning facilitation. in order to have a deeper, more effective and long lasting learning impact, this systematic approach designs, implements and evaluates the teaching- learning process, using specific purposes, new methods of psychology and communication sciences and a...