"The people offering this need to have the appropriate training, background, competencies and supervision".
Proximity may be geographic, reflecting the physical degree of closeness, or organisational, reflecting similarity in thinking styles, training or educational background, competencies, shared experiences or common informal knowledge [ 10, 17].
It was possible to identify three additional fields of influence: (1) Core activities for developing university support systems (research or implementation projects, dialogue processes), (2) the organizational history and competencies background of universities and (3) student interest and demand.
However, participants' personal background and self-estimated competencies could be interesting aspects for analysing the framework of spiritual care training and competencies delivered.
We collected data on background, training, practice, and competencies of both adult and paediatric PSA.
Against this background, matching students' individual competencies with the domain-related requirements at a university or place of work becomes the main aim for these highly stratified educational (or vocational) systems (Orr 2013).
The facilitator summarised the background knowledge and required competencies, and health workers were given the opportunity to clarify doubts.
Group participants were chosen from our own institution, based on competencies and background, such that different areas of expertise were covered.
The following descriptions are meant to provide brief background information about each competency framework.
While MD's, as a result of their clinical educator role, are best placed to identify key practical questions to study, the PhD's, because of their academic training and theoretical backgrounds, have the required competencies to enrich those practical questions with theoretical perspectives and contribute effectively to the development and enactment of the associated research projects.
Against this outlined background, the interrelations between economic competencies and the educational aspirations of Swiss FVB students will be reported in more detail.
