The purpose of this project was to describe the process used for the development of core competencies for paraprofessional nutrition educators in Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE). The development process included the efforts of an expert panel of state and multicounty FSNE leaders to draft the core competencies and the validation of those competencies by FSNE paraprofessionals. The result ...

CONTEXT Reports evaluating faculty knowledge of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies in community hospitals without a dedicated residency program are uncommon. OBJECTIVE Faculty evaluation regarding knowledge of ACGME core competencies before a residency program is started. DESIGN Physicians at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (N = 4...

BACKGROUND There is a growing mandate for Family Medicine residency programs to directly assess residents' clinical competence in Care of the Elderly (COE). The objectives of this paper are to describe the development and implementation of incremental core competencies for Postgraduate Year (PGY)-I Integrated Geriatrics Family Medicine, PGY-II Geriatrics Rotation Family Medicine, and PGY-III En...

Identifies how contexts affect communication strategies and practices Engages in effective communication practices in a variety of situations and with a variety of media Oral Communication [1] Written Communication Writing Across the Curriculum/Using Writing [2] Visual Literacy [3] Media Literacy [4] Technological Literacy Integrating Instructional Technology into Your Courses [5] Online Teachi...

BACKGROUND In 1998, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist (NACNS) developed the first ever core competencies for clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. PURPOSE This article describes the method used to develop, validate, and revise CNS core practice competencies. METHODS The stepwise method of identifying core CNS competencies included content analysis of CNS position/job...

BACKGROUND The changing healthcare landscape requires physicians to develop new knowledge and skills such as high-value care, systems improvement, population health, and team-based care, which together may be referred to as the Science of Health Care Delivery (SHCD). To engender public trust and confidence, educators must be able to meaningfully assess physicians' abilities in SHCD. We aimed to...

Core competencies have long been discussed and developed in the literature of library science education and information systems education. However, for information management, a blending of these two disciplines, there has been much less discussion of core competencies. The purpose of this paper is to consolidate the sparse literature on information management educational competencies and to su...

There has been a growing emphasis on the use of core competencies to design and inform curricula. Based on our Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience workshop at Pomona we developed a set of neuroscience core competencies. Following the workshop, faculty members were asked to complete an online survey to determine which core competencies are considered most essential and the results are present...

Pre-clinical exposure to patients provides opportunities for medical students to display competencies which may be expressed in reflective narratives. Geriatric education experts used qualitative consensus methods to identify themes expressed in second year medical student narratives which were mapped to ACGME Core Competencies. Concept searches operationalizing these same competencies were cre...