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

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-453

  Reeves, Scott ^a   Fox, Ann ^a   Hodges, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STANDARD; ONTARIO; STANDARDS;

CANADA; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 70349502109     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9166-2     Document Type: Editorial

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