Incorporating expert panel feedback through a modified Delphi process, the team developed and refined the final competencies and terminal objectives.
These efforts will undoubtedly help refine the HSR core competencies.
During the workshop, participants refined the candidate core competencies, which were divided into three categories: screening and identification, formal diagnosis and referral, and treatment and care.
If the framework is to be used to inform training or curriculum development, it may be beneficial to prioritise the competencies or further refine a shortlist of five or six essential competencies for initial focus.
As a result of multiplicity of skills and competencies that students acquire and refine participating in AL, values exceed mere professional qualification.
Final refinement and approval of BDS competencies and the full curriculum must occur at all levels, and integration with other curricula, specifically the medical curriculum, must continue to be refined for the diagonal approach to function.
Once refined the list(s) of common core competencies may serve as a standard that current and future youth workers can strive toward and can also be used to guide staff training.
For example, the University of New South Wales [ 16] identifies 'effective communication' as one of its eight competencies, but then goes on to refine this to include three more detailed competencies: 'communicates effectively with patients and their families', 'communicates effectively with peers and tutors', and 'communicates with communities'.
Definitions of the competencies for eco-medical literacy can be refined using consensus-making techniques with practitioners such as the Delphi technique, which has been used to develop competencies for health professions [ 38].
While attempts at health literacy conceptualisation have been made [ 3- 5], it was felt that there is a need to refine these models to line up with evolving health literacy definitions and competencies.
Finally, spiritual care competencies for various clinical care team members should be refined.
