Keeping a record of all activities performed during residency and thereafter is a way of quantifying knowledge and competence, informing future accreditation, appraisal, continuing professional development needs and the requirements of potential employers.
It is the first time that the competences defined in ABET accreditation standards in the engineering field are compared with the international competences according to IPMÁs model.
Seventeen countries out of the 19 offer an official registration (accreditation) for special competence in ICM, and in 16 countries out of these 17 this accreditation is combined with a base or major speciality, such as anaesthesia, internal medicine, surgery and paediatrics; in these countries ICM can be described as a 'supraspeciality'supraspeciality
The purpose of AAVLD accreditation is to accredit public veterinary diagnostic laboratories in North America relative to technical and operational competence compatible with appropriate standards and to provide an administrative assessment.
14 In the UK demonstration of competency in the MLC Fs domains is fundamental for career progression and necessary for satisfactory completion of the Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) required for gaining accreditation.
To use an educational analogy, medical schools may demonstrate ability and competence in the test circumstances of accreditation, but the appropriate measures of outcome as fulfilment of objectives are evaluation of performance and quality.
The development of public health competence sets logically leads to formalised evaluation and accreditation of training programs.
It is not designed to: set up a monitoring system for purposes of central control; rank the colposcopists; certify their competence; collect single screening centre's data for accreditation purposes; and provide data to national screening authorities.
The UEMS has adopted a competence-based approach and established the European Council for Accreditation of Medical Specialist Qualifications (ECAMSQ) to assess trainees' knowledge, professionalism and practical skills [ 20].
Future research can implement the resulting teacher competence inventory in different teaching context to attest the accreditation of this inventory in different educational contexts since teaching is liable to the charge of different biases and understandings that are culture-bound.
Accreditation is a means of certifying the competence of a laboratory to perform specific types of testing and it enhances customer confidence in accepting testing results.
