Developments in computer-mediated communications are not only providing new opportunities for educators but also changing roles and competencies in learning and teaching environments. Experts agree that teaching online requires different roles and competencies. The literature includes several studies on roles and competencies for online teaching. However, as Le Boterf underlines, roles and comp...

In Contemporary Public Health, Keck, Scutchfield, and Holsinger call for changes in vision among those leading the evolution of healthcare from individualistic to community-wide approaches to improve health status (1). Having new vision is necessary but not sufficient; new leadership skills are also needed in order to implement and sustain change. This article summarizes our thoughts about new ...

Business process management (BPM) is an approach which empowers companies to react flexibly to new market situations. The main goal of BPM is to improve efficiency and effectiveness of value-adding business processes. The changes caused by globalization do not only concern organization, technologies and processes, but also people. Employee competencies can be crucial competitive advantages. The...

This paper analyses the changing competence requirements which members of the food chain face in their pursuit of competitive advantage. Two groups of trends serve as point of departure: more dynamic and heterogeneous consumer demands, which can be analysed in terms of consumer demands for sensory, health, process and convenience qualities, and changing roles for retailers in the food chain. Ba...

Nowadays, most researchers and practitioners agree in considering the correct management of information as a powerful competitive force. The focus of top managers has progressively shifted towards “information” as an asset that can be exploited to increase the overall company performance. As a consequence, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role has been dramatically changing, both in terms of...

INTRODUCTION Health professions education is gradually moving away from the more traditional approaches to new innovative ways of training aimed at producing professionals with the necessary competencies to address the community health needs. In response to these emerging trends, Medical Education for Equitable Services to All Ugandans (MESAU), a consortium of Ugandan medical schools developed ...

Population health intervention research (PHIR) is a relatively new research field that studies interventions that can improve health and health equity at a population level. Competencies are one way to give legitimacy and definition to a field. An initial set of PHIR competencies was developed with leadership from a multi-sector group in Canada. This paper describes the development process for ...

Postgraduate trainees in psychiatry are being evaluated on their proficiency at competencies that comprise the physician roles identified by the CanMEDS 2000 Project. This paper provides an overview of each CanMEDS role and its associated competencies and suggests strategies to help residents prepare for the new format of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (RCPSC) certification examin...

This paper introduces a new approach to draw up business competencies as well as to facilitate their exchange and diffusion through an e-marketplace. The business model and a view on a technical solution to implement « B-C Market » has been built in the context of an e-marketplace. Obviously, the main challenge to cope is to find a way to outline and retrieve the competencies. Business competen...