In addition to this peer assessment, students had to self-asses their task performance using the identical list of competence-based criteria (SA-C) or performance based criteria (SA-P), using the same four-point scale.
The performance-based group is compared to a competence-based assessment group in which students receive a preset list of competence-based assessment criteria, describing what students should be able to do.
There are similar projects which aim at the development of more specific lists of competences in Europe such as the Core Competences Framework for Health Promotion (39), Core Competences for Public Health Epidemiologists (40), or competences in the area of Public Health Leadership (41).
This taxonomy is a list of 60 competences clustered into six major categories (see Fig. 3), translated into French.
Changes in formulations and structure were however required to obtain a list of key competences formulated in a useful way for assessment at the workplace.
The authors argue that the structure in itself reflects the inter-disciplinarity of the sciences involved in public health and in principle, it is intended to be exhaustive and comparable especially to the list of core competences as developed by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) in the USA (33).
The starting point for the FG will be the initial list of cross-cultural competences obtained after the analysis of the content of the PI.
To guide curricula, a list of 'day one competences' has existed for a number of years defined by the RCVS [ 1].
As different as the core functions are, there is also great variability in the list of public health competences developed all over the world (42).
In this context a global dialogue on standardised lists of professional competences for public health started towards the end of the last century.
Criteria items for assessing the level of FP competence output of a course/program are listed below: a) Students received theory training (Yes/No) AND b) The level of practical (skills) developed/mastered by the graduate (listed in ascending levels of competence): 1.
