Sentence examples for competent behaviour from inspiring English sources

Assessing the cultural competence of medical students and physicians identified gaps in knowledge and culturally competent behaviour.

According to Berman (1997), an important factor that fosters the development of prosocial or socially competent behaviour is the type of control that their parents exhibit over their children.

We assessed knowledge with a multiple choice test; and we assessed culturally competent behaviour with items referring to the respondent's actual behaviour in specific situations.

Patient centredness is increasingly regarded as the norm in communication skills training [ 33], therefore some aspects of culturally competent behaviour (e.g. exploring patients' perspectives) might to some extent already be covered in the current curricula.

Scores on 'consultation behaviour' varied between respondent groups: reported exploration of patients' perspectives and interaction with low health literacy suggested moderate culturally competent behaviour, whereas reported exploration of patients' social contexts seemed inadequate.

In his theory, he states that it is very difficult to make such competencies explicit, which is a pity because when such competent behaviours could be made explicit, they can be taught and people can learn about them.

Culturally Competent Consultation Behaviour: In this domain we ask respondents to report their professional behaviour as doctors in medical consultations with ethnic minority patients.

†the largest cities are: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. 3) Culturally Competent Consultation Behaviour: In this domain we ask respondents to report their professional behaviour as doctors in medical consultations with ethnic minority patients.

Assessing knowledge of issues relevant for care provision to ethnic minority patients, ability to reflect, and culturally competent consultation behaviour enabled us to identify gaps regarding cultural competence training in the current curricula of medical students, YHC Residents and professional education of YHC Supervisors.

Variation in scores on reported culturally competent consultation behaviour might be explained by the strong relation between cultural competence and patient centred communication [ 4].

This paper describes the outcomes of an assessment of knowledge, reflection ability and self-reported culturally competent consultation behaviour, the relation between these assessments and self-perceived cultural competence, and the applicability of the results in the light of developing a cultural competence educational programme.