Evaluation Of Professional Competence Research Articles

Evaluation of Professional Competency in Occupational Hygiene in Canada—the CRBOH Program

Evaluation of Professional Competency in Occupational Hygiene in Canada—the CRBOH Program

The HIV-infected house officer: Residency training issues

Efforts to fully integrate physicians infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into residency programs have been complicated by concerns of the potential risks of viral transmission from physician to patient. Despite numerous studies, this potential risk has not been quantified. This article addresses the issue of HIV-infected interns and residents, classifying HIV as a potential disability. The suggested recommendations emphasize routine monitoring and evaluation of professional competence and compliance with proper infection control procedures, as delineated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The need for hospitalwide guidelines and adequate health and disability insurance are also discussed.

Evaluating professional competence

Professional competence evaluation should involve attention to its intellectual and social context, and not just worry about technical fine points. The author frames professional competence evaluation broadly, containing sections on social issues, conceptual problems, and technical matters. The author uses illustrations from podiatric medicine and from other professions that have similar concerns about the evaluation of practitioner competence. Several suggestions are given for improving evaluating practices.

Professional Competence Evaluation

Professionals are individuals who use technical or specialized knowledge and skill in service of the public welfare. The importance of evaluating the competence of professionals is transparent–to receive assurance that the services delivered by professional persons are effective and safe. Trustworthy evaluation of professional competence requires attention to the social conditions where such individuals work and to evaluation technology. This article addresses each of these issues and provides illustrations of professional competence evaluation from several fields.

Professional Competence Evaluation

Professionals are individuals who use technical or specialized knowledge and skill in service of the public welfare. The importance of evaluating the competence of professionals is transparent–to receive assurance that the services delivered by professional persons are effective and safe. Trustworthy evaluation of professional competence requires attention to the social conditions where such individuals work and to evaluation technology. This article addresses each of these issues and provides illustrations of professional competence evaluation from several fields.

Lay evaluation of medical treatment and competence development of a model of the function of the physician's affective behavior

Conclusions of earlier studies regarding the significance of the physician's affective behavior in patients' satisfaction with the medical treatment gained additional empirical support and further application. A study among a representative sample of Israeli adults ascertained that the inclination to judge medical treatment on the basis of the G.P.'s affective behavior increases with the increase in the salience of the medical problem. It also revealed that the satisfaction with a physician's affective behavior determines to a great extent the evaluation of professional competence, the choice of alternative treatment agents and the evaluation of that alternative agent's professional competence.

The structure of competence in health professions.

The past decade has seen widespread research on systematic evaluation of the competence of health professionals. Such activity usually has been carried out in accordance with the prevailing psychological paradigms, in which competence is represented as a trait, or as an intrapsychic factor. However, even when competence has been delimited as problem-solving, the research generally identified a strong situational influence on performance. In this article are assembled a set of diverse but complementary arguments for dispensing with the conventional representations of professional competence. In their place is proposed a relational model in which competence in health professions is seen as the aggregated adaptations of practitioners to the set of special social circumstances that obtain within the situational boundaries of their profession. It is argued that a thorough understanding of the content of professional situations is a necessary prerequisite for successful evaluation of professional competence, since competent behavior is lodged in a network of probabilistic relationships with the surroundings. Also discussed are selected procedural implications of this new model for the conduct of investigations of professional situations.

Task force IV: Evaluation of professional competence

Task force IV: Evaluation of professional competence