Individual factors include competencies such as structured style, social competence, and personal competence.
CanMEDS physician competencies [ 14] exemplify such a framework, and like other similar frameworks, include competencies such as communicator, collaborator, health advocate, and professional.
Furthermore, with evidence demonstrating variation in target delineation between expert clinicians, there is a need for specialized training that includes competencies such as anatomical knowledge and target delineation as a requirement of the radiation oncology postgraduate medical education curriculum [ 17- 20].
They include competencies in such areas as developing new technologies, doing business in the Pacific Rim, dealing with governments, and creating shareholder value.
Common themes resulting from this forum were: Competencies need to include non-clinical competencies such as those dealing with logistics, supply management, quality of care and leadership.
More recent explorations of soft skills have included work-related competencies, such as EQ (emotional intelligence), and entrepreneurship.
It prompted me to ensure that important competencies, such as "listening," were included in the model I proposed.
We would postulate that this may reflect changes in core medical training where the curriculum does now includes competencies in conditions such as delirium and falls.
Less commonly reported program aims include: supporting the exchange of medical knowledge (6 programs, 27%), counseling students regarding research projects including their MD thesis (6 programs, 27%) and promoting mentees' key competencies such as communication skills (4 programs, 18%).
There is then further specificity with more operational competencies such as 'counsels patients appropriately on a range of health risks including poor nutrition, smoking cessation, drug and alcohol management, and refers to community programs and services if appropriate'.
The new prevention curriculum teaches social and emotional competencies such as decision making and resistance skills.
