Most of the staff at both intervention and control centres had positive attitudes and self-reported competency, indicating good conditions for implementing lifestyle promotion at these centres.
However, none of the work environment scales correlated with Conviction of Therapeutic Competency, indicating that particularly professional competency is a dimension independent from positive or negative aspects of work environment.
By contrast, conscientiousness was negatively associated with both competencies, indicating that more conscientious respondents have, on average, lower numeracy and literacy skills than less conscientious respondents.
However, the regression models using age, years in present position and work place only explained a relatively small part of competency, which indicates a multidimensional situation including other factors of importance.
Furthermore, we found no significant interactions between coexisting factors and individual competencies, which indicates that there were no moderators.
However, we observed suboptimal development of contouring competency, as indicated by the poor ability to apply core medical knowledge to the practical skill of accurate contouring.
The study provides a competency framework that indicates how corporate entrepreneurship can be facilitated in IAASE.
Requests of the Education Committee Working Group of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine [10], disaster medicine-related competencies as indicated in emergency medicine or radiology curricula, courses recommended by professional organizations, the literature and expert opinion were addressed as far as available [7, 21 23].
However, on most (11) of the 16 competencies, at least 50% of students "disagreed" or "strongly disagreed" that they could perform the stated competence, which indicated that the stated competencies were beyond their present ability level.
A rank of "1" indicates the competency which had the largest mean gap.
