The failure to find a relationship between width of the search corridor and accuracy implies that being seen to adopt an 'S'-shaped search path should not translate into beliefs about equivalent search competence.
For one, you need language skills in both French and English, and applicants should have a nursing degree, social worker diploma, health care assistant certificate, "or equivalent experience or competence".
To work as a licensed practical nurse or nursing assistant, the municipalities require competence equivalent to completion of the upper secondary school care program.
However, even if community optometrists can be shown to have levels of diagnostic accuracy and management competence equivalent to ophthalmologists, there are many other reasons why a change in service provision may be challenging.
A study carried out in the US found that 14 year-olds demonstrated a level of competence equivalent to that of adults according to legal standards when presented with hypothetical treatment dilemmas [ 30].
These experts concluded, "Given appropriate and competency-based training, CHWs can screen clients effectively, provide DMPA (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate) injections safely and counsel on the side effects appropriately, demonstrating competence equivalent to facility-based providers of progestin-only injectables".
However, no equivalent assessment of specific competences was observed, which could be attributed to the fact that the tests evaluated different aspects of the same learning outcome.
In the aforementioned theory, every skill should be taught in an equivalent way, keeping the competence level of a trainee in mind to tailor the training to individual needs.
The skill of being a competent practitioner is not equivalent to rule-following; it is impossible to state rules such that health workers necessarily display a genuine competence if the rules are followed [ 19, 20].
At the same time, there is a full repertoire of genes of the competence regulon located at the position equivalent to that of the S. pneumoniae genome in both S. pseudopneumoniae strains.
