Over the past few years, Pediatrics training programs in Abu Dhabi have embraced competency-based medical education in an effort to provide better healthcare for UAE children and their families.
Jimma University and Moi University were founded on the innovative problem-based and community-oriented educational philosophy; the other five schools, through development of new curricula, have evolved and adopted (to varying degrees) the problem-based model of education but none to date have fully embraced competency-based education philosophy.
Professionalism, an Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency, embraces the concept of adherence to ethical principles.
Intriguingly, both men have publicly embraced the idea of soul competency (the traditional Baptist view that each person must develop and be responsible for his or her own beliefs), a concept that allows for fellowship between those whose religious and social ideas may diverge.
Or it could be even bigger steps, such as a mainstream embrace of Competency Based Education that can help non-traditional students keep pace with commercial innovation.
"We are seeing institutions embrace much more competency-based skills development for students, and this includes understanding how to embrace social media technologies".
The general MPH curricula partially embrace principles of competency-based education.
Embraced by the aviation industry, simulators remain a core competency in pilot training and credentialing [ 11].
Within the context of the analysis, the competencies: Systems Thinking, Embracing Diversity and Interdisciplinarity, Interpersonal Competence, Action Competence, and Strategic Management were found to be necessary.
Health professional boards in some developed countries have embraced CPD as an effective way of maintaining and improving competencies of health professionals and have made them mandatory [ 5, 6].
Apart of our mission statement is "to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by developing multicultural competency and embracing a culture of peace among adolescents in all societies".
