The phrase "have high competency" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a person's level of expertise or proficiency in an area. For example, "The new engineer was hired because she had high competency in mechanical engineering."
Major themes emerged in response to the open-ended written answers showing that PharmD graduates had high competency in patient care services and readiness to work, particularly in large hospitals, due to their training to work in specialised areas (e.g., special clinics, ward rounds).
The stakeholders expect the PharmD graduates to have higher competencies and be ready to work as pharmacists due to the greater number of didactic credits and the longer training experience.
While graduates recruited by special track had higher competency in four domains, those recruited by normal track had higher competencies in major clinical subjects (MAJ_CLINIC) with an average score of 0.03, 0.04, and 0.02, respectively.
Special track graduates scored higher on four out of five competencies, notably procedural skills, but normal track graduates had higher competency on clinical knowledge in major clinical subjects.
It was similar to the adoption of the PharmD in the US, Canada and South Korea that was led by the needs of clinical pharmacists who had higher competency in patient care [ 10, 89, 90].
Half of the respondents perceived PharmD graduates as having higher competencies in clinical activities and being more prepared to work than BPharm graduates.
They thought that the PharmD graduates had higher competencies (e.g., more clinical knowledge, more clinical skills, better decision making) than BPharm graduates, particularly in pharmaceutical care activities, and were prepared to work, whereas BPharm graduates needed time to learn to practice clinically.
Furthermore, incoming students increasingly have high ICT competencies, and consequently expect consistent ICT facilities in their higher education.
Secondly, for the external validation, it exposes that the students learning with model have high levels of competency and achievements.
