Creativity is a key competency within different frameworks for twenty-first century education (Dede, 2010; Voogt & Roblin, 2012) and is considered a competency-enabling way to succeed in an increasingly complex world (Rogers, 1954; Wang, Schneider, & Valacich, 2015).
If a competency area was included in less than 60% of the frameworks it was not considered a common competency area.
"Community engagement is considered a core competency alongside team leadership and building client relationships".
He argues that being able to recruit and staff up well on your own should be considered a "core competency".
In the recent Vision and Change report, evolution is considered one of five core concepts for biological literacy and the ability to apply the process of science through activities, such as research in laboratory courses, is considered a core competency (AAAS 2011).
EBM was chosen as the teaching topic as this an important area in clinical medicine [ 13], in medical education evidence based practice is considered a mandatory competency for postgraduates [ 14], and it can be taught using computer based sessions or lectures.
Leadership is considered an essential competency for physicians, independent of whether they hold a formal leadership position [ 1– 3].
For instance, mathematical skills are considered a "fundamental cultural competency for understanding the world" (Tenorth et al. 2010) and a "formal language that in many different forms has become a self-evident mean of communication in many professions and scientific disciplines" (Gschwendtner 2012).
According to professional nursing associations, routine screening for IPV is considered a standard of competency for any nursing assessment [ 34, 35].
The ability to recognize and foster it, and its various dimensions, is widely considered an important clinical competency for physicians.
