Using job analysis to identify core and specific competencies: Implications for selection and recruitment

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1195-1204

  Patterson, Fiona ^a,b   Ferguson, Eamonn ^c   Thomas, Sarah ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

*Education, medical, graduate; *School admission criteria; Anaesthesiology *education standards; Clinical competence *standards; Obstetrics *Education standards; Paediatrics *Education standards

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; WORK;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA;

EID: 56649083321     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03174.x     Document Type: Article

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