This project defined a set of core clinical competencies for physicians which have now been endorsed by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) [ 21].
Furthermore, our results validate the need for a selection method that is closely aligned with the expected competencies of the job for which it is selecting.
The physician behaviors assessed by the PRPCC were derived from the same general model of cultural competency from which the training curriculum for the study was developed.
Inside the module, the design team would also annotate with competencies critical activities and resources for which recommendations seem necessary.
In such a referral guide special attention should go to children (especially the very young ones) since they are a large and vulnerable group for which special competencies are required.
More recently, the Association of Schools of Public Health in the US have started developing a set of competencies for global health which include comparative health systems analysis, economic analysis and context-specific policy making processes [ 25].
In comparison, the MDEECC Core Competencies uses a rating system that pinpoints the staffing level for which the competency is most applicable.
We observed minor differences between clusters in these cognitive competencies except for verbal working memory for which no differences were observed.
Within the 7 clinical stations however, there are domains where a host organisation and patients would expect absolute competency of all medical staff and for which errors and omissions would have implications for patient safety.
The acquisition of secondary competencies requires adapting primary systems for tasks for which they are not designed.
