A new approach is the development of a decentralised network with the splitting of work and competencies on all actors in a community with equal rights and responsibilities.
The differences between competencies required at the day-to-day work and competencies taught in medical school were illustrated for both groups in figure 1.
To express effect size, Hedges' g was computed for all significant differences between graduates from the PBL-based curriculum and from the conventional curricula regarding the research questions "Required competencies at the day-to-day work", and "Competencies as taught in medical school" [ 23].
The competition for individual institutions would reward colleges or nonprofit organizations that boost productivity through such approaches as course redesign that exploits new technology; early-college preparation that reduces the need for remedial work; and competency-based approaches to college credit that replace the traditional model of rewarding hours spent in class.
In such cases, the contribution that specialist subject teaching – through its focused and progressive application of skills, knowledge and understanding – has seemingly been tipped on a slag heap with, instead, the new seams of project work, skills and competencies to be separately mined.
The salary point increases with a teacher's work experience and competencies and is also regulated by the market, not by performance (Li et al. [2013]).
Although the facilitators had related working experiences and competencies, they still needed to learn or update their knowledge and skills related to the QIIP LC program, including methodology for improvement, use of the PDSA tool, process mapping, methods for measuring indicators of health outcomes, organizational development, advance access, and coaching skills.
The resident component of the Canadian Thoracic Manpower and Education Study (T-MED) was conducted to understand the basic demographic of Canadian thoracic surgery residents, the factors influencing their selection of training programs, current work conditions, training and competencies, and opinions in regard to the manpower needs for the specialty.
Items on specific EBP content were sourced from published work describing educational content and competencies critical to EBP in general [ 24] and evidence based PT in particular [ 4, 23, 25, 26].
The study also provides information about health workers' self-perception on their knowledge and competencies to work with immigrant patients.
Qualitative research affirms the importance of work participation for shaping identities and competencies (Corsten and Lempert [1992]; Hartigan-Rogers et al. [2007]; Henderson et al. [2007]).
