Other examples of such interventions include changes in staffing levels to concentrate effort in more vulnerable parts of the process and modification of the quality assurance processes to focus on weaknesses in the treatment preparation process, enhance staff training, competency evaluation and supervision, strictly follow clinical protocol, and standardization of processes.
Recognition and adequate training of the health workforce would lead to adequate preparation, skills and competencies for effective disaster response [ 52].
The three factors "learning preparation," "advancement of competency," and "learning evaluation" explained 63.5% of total factor loading.
No pharmacists were employed at Office B. No documentation of staff training and evaluation for chemotherapy preparation or infection control competency was available.
It was, in short, a thousand worlds away from talk of testing and standards and competencies and test preparation.
The SFFP report formulates its recommendations for premedical preparation in terms of eight competencies.
Indeed, a report commissioned by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI; 2009) has recommended a fresh look, including new mathematical competencies for the preparation of future physicians.
A third could be a responsive feedback system in which graduates report back to the school the adequacy of their preparation in regard to the competencies and the need for modifications.
Claudia Neuhauser (University of Minnesota-Rochester [UM-R]), who served on the panel that produced a report commissioned by the AAMC and HHMI (2009), which recommended new mathematical competencies for the preparation of future physicians, is developing curriculum to engage UM-R students in tackling Mayo Clinic's challenging biomedical problems in a project called NUMB3R5 COUNT.
This concept -- which is similar to the recent white paper from Karen Cator, Carrie Schneider and Tom Vander Ark on competency-based teacher preparation and development -- could lead to a teaching workforce that's far more comfortable implementing blended learning in their classrooms because they've experienced it in their own learning.
