This organization creates pathways for educators to move throughout America by linking states through the NASDTEC Interstate Agreement, which provides a common core for teacher certification while giving states autonomy to tailor certification requirements to fit their individual needs.
"You need some core set of certification that allows a patient to know that they are going to someone from whom they can reliably get appropriate treatment," Dr. James Weinstein, chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock MedicaLebanonr iN.H.bandn, N.H., and the editor of the medical journal Spine.
Further limiting the standardization of skills across roles is the lack of formal core competencies or certification criteria for most practitioners [ 4].
The company is still going gangbusters with its core business of providing certifications, credentials, transcripts and diplomas to the folks that need them, Pittinsky says.
Standardized training and certification ensures that core competencies are met for each physician trained to be an emergency physician.
As one of the organization's earliest benefactors, she helped establish sustainable certification programs and other core projects.
In the US the National Association of Peer Supporters is in the process of developing National Practice Standards that would define peer practice in terms of values, quality, ethical behaviour, job role and core competencies, potentially leading to the certification of the Peer Worker role as a profession [ 48].
Arguably, more of the training could be focused on IR procedures and equipment and less on diagnostic imaging, while still providing the core skills necessary to achieve board certification in radiology.
The EITI could learn from the Forest Stewardship Council, a voluntary, multi-stakeholder forest certification scheme, which developed a core principle more than 10 years ago to uphold indigenous peoples' rights of ownership and use of land and resources.
MRI technologists from each study site receive centralised training and certification by a central imaging core.
This activity is a core element in regulatory regimes and in certification and accreditation processes [ 2, 3].
