Core competencies are the most essential skills and behaviors your people need to succeed in their roles and drive your business strategy. They spell out what good performance looks like in clear, ...

The Canadian hospitalist movement has rapidly grown from an emerging trend to a widespread reality. From coast to coast, hospitalists are here, most of them family physicians.1 A recent national ...

Competencies are basic skills employees need to perform their job duties and tasks. All are broad areas that can be improved through training, job experience and development. Training and development ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

A new white paper from the American Hospital Association’s Physician Leadership Forum considers the core competencies needed to deliver coordinated, team-based, value-driven care, providing hospitals ...

The provision of geriatric training for undergraduate medical students should be a condition of accreditation of medical schools, as well as a competency tested on licensing exams. That stance lies at ...

A core competency is a skill at which an individual is especially proficient, or a set of activities that an organization performs better than other functions – whether more efficiently, at lower cost ...

Open the newspaper and it seems there’s one story after another about corporate accounting scandals and other ethical troubles. In the midst of all these troubles, however, the American Society for ...