The Maintenance of Certification program was designed to document that American Board of Surgery diplomates are maintaining the necessary competencies to provide quality care.
The American Medical Association, with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, launched a program called Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care project [ 12] whose goal is to educate all physicians on the clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care.
The challenge for universities in developing countries of Latin America is to provide quality education and to promote the development of the digital competencies necessary for an active citizenship.
In addition to appropriate competencies, health personnel who provide eye care require appropriate infrastructure, equipment, equipment maintenance, supplies, [ 100] an effective supply chain [ 84] and technology to be able to provide quality care [ 6, 49, 100].
Many providers lacked basic family planning knowledge and, in many instances, the technical competency to provide particular services.
Physicians need global health competencies to provide effective care to culturally and linguistically diverse patients.
Longer and more in-depth training should be extended to the workplace, via supportive supervision and post-training follow-up, in order to ensure provider competency needed to provide high quality PAC services.
Health professionals with the level of competency necessary to provide high-quality patient education are central to meeting patients' needs.
Although their role in providing care to the older patient is critical, studies show that some nurses and nursing students lack adequate knowledge about ageing, and do not possess the competencies or attitudes necessary for providing quality care to older persons [ 19– 22].
Competency-based clinical training and continuing education are crucial to enable the health system to provide good quality care.
