The competency movement in the health professions: ensuring consistent standards or reproducing conventional domains of practice?

✍ Scribed by Scott Reeves; Ann Fox; Brian D. Hodges

• Book ID: 106338910
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1382-4996
• DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9166-2

✦ Synopsis

Efforts to define professional competence are growing among the health professions. Increasing numbers of professional groups, regulatory bodies and government agencies are introducing specialty, professional and interprofessional competencies (e.g.,