BACKGROUND Current literature calls for the explicit teaching to health-science educators of the skills, knowledge and dispositions that are required for successful teaching in higher education. AIMS This paper draws on evidence from an Oral Hygiene department at a South African university in order to illustrate these teaching-competency needs. Insights from the evidence are synthesised with ...

Although it is important to assess the effectiveness of programs, courses, and teaching methods to ensure that goals are being achieved, it is very difficult to evaluate the impact of fundamental changes in a whole curriculum. This paper reviews measures that have been used in the past in dentistry and medicine for evaluating academic programs: curriculum guidelines; competency documents; discu...

Introduction: The essential problems in providing quality and safety services to patients, rapid changes in health care settings as well as information technology require educational revision. Competency-based curriculum focuses on set of skills that students should achieve. This study reviewed characteristics of competency-based curriculum in psychiatric nursing. Methods: A literature review a...

The new framework introduced by the European Space for Higher Education entails the reformulation of teaching strategies, which must not only be based on the teaching process, but also on the learning process. Given the importance of teamwork in nowadays’ engineering labour market, we propose a teaching-learning strategy, which applies a competency-based education approach and aims to reinforce...

This study was a quest aimed at evaluating competency enhancement needs of lecturers for quality teaching and learning in South-East universities of Nigeria. Reviewed literatures revealed that there is a steady decline in the quality of university graduates; as such the researchers sought to find out possible inputs that could enhance and guarantee quality instructional delivery in our universi...

BACKGROUND Evidence based practice (EBP) requires that health professionals are competent in integrating the best evidence in their decision making. Being 'evidence-based' requires skills and knowledge in epidemiology, biostatistics and information literacy. EBP is commonly taught in medical and health sciences degrees, yet there is little evidence to guide educators as to the best teaching mod...

The International Pediatric Association has resolved that the identification and treatment of severe malnutrition should be a core competency for paediatricians and related health professionals worldwide. The Resolution is in response to the urgent need to reduce deaths and disability among young children. The Resolution has implications for the training of doctors, nurses and other health work...

JCDA • www.cda-adc.ca/jcda • December 2008/January 2009, Vol. 74, No. 10 • The publication in 1995 of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the state of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads, spelled out what dental leaders already knew — that wholesale curriculum changes were needed to modernize the teaching of dentistry. One suggested solution for curriculum renewal was the ado...