Interns’ Perceived Competency Levels with Respect to the Medical Expert Role in Different Clinical Disciplines
Ronald Omenge Obwoge,
Willem de Grave
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2016
Pages:
1-14
Received:
10 August 2016
Accepted:
19 August 2016
Published:
12 September 2016
DOI:
10.11648/j.tecs.20160101.11
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Abstract: Competency assessment in the health professions usually serves many purposes including educational, employment-related, and regulatory ones, including aspects of professional competence and protection of the public. Professional bodies and training institutions conduct competency assessments to assess and certify professionals. The main aim of this study is to protect the public by ascertaining whether there is a need for educational interventions by assessing the existing competency levels of clinical officers, and identifying deficiencies with regard to those competencies. Training institutions, Clinical Officers Council and practicing clinical officers can use these results as immediate and future remedies for their curricula and programmes, so that the required competency levels can be achieved. Sixty four (64) interns completed a questionnaire about their self-perceived competency level(s) on various discipline-related tasks. The study population consisted of interns who were graduates of Kenya Medical Training College (45) and Egerton University (19) and who were practicing in accredited interns training hospitals. A self administered questionnaire was used to elicit clinical officer interns’ self perceived competencies in their medical expert role. This questionnaire was constructed based on the CanMEDS framework and on guidelines for clinical officer interns’ assessment form by Clinical officers Council. A list of tasks in specialties of medicine, paediatrics, surgery, and gynaecology and obstetrics were included in the questionnaire to ensure content-related evidence of validity. This survey reports on the level of competency among clinical officers (interns) in relation to the medical expert role during their clinical rotations, reflecting the competency levels relating to various tasks relating to the specialties of the clinical officers of the two selected training institutions (Kenya). The selected institutions are Egerton University and Kenya Medical Training College. The survey focuses on the CO interns’ levels of competency in medical specialties (medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and Gynecology and Obstetrics). By answering the main question for CO interns” Sincerely rate yourself in your daily performance in the following areas by circling the number that you feel best represents your competence”. The study results shows that CO interns from Kenya medical training college and Egerton University considered themselves to have adequate competency levels for most tasks, with a few exceptions, such as excision of superficial lesions e.g. ganglion, inserting and removing contraceptive devices e.g. coil tasks. These tasks represent 6.8% of all the cases rated.
Abstract: Competency assessment in the health professions usually serves many purposes including educational, employment-related, and regulatory ones, including aspects of professional competence and protection of the public. Professional bodies and training institutions conduct competency assessments to assess and certify professionals. The main aim of this...
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The Mediating Role of Workplace Happiness on Teachers’ Innovative Behavior and Affective Commitment for Malaysian Secondary Schools: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Survey
Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah,
Ying-Leh Ling
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2016
Pages:
15-19
Received:
20 August 2016
Accepted:
26 August 2016
Published:
12 September 2016
DOI:
10.11648/j.tecs.20160101.12
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Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the mediating effects of workplace happiness on the relationship between school culture, affective commitment, and teachers’ innovative behavior. The study also examines the correlation between all the variables. The study sample consists of 835 teachers from 167 secondary schools in Northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. Based on the results of the data analysis, it can be concluded that all the variables are inter-correlate positively. Meanwhile, workplace happiness has found a full mediation effect on school culture and innovative behavior. On the other hand, workplace happiness also act as a partial mediator in the relationship between school culture and affective commitment. Findings suggest that the education organizations should pay more attention on teachers’ psychological aspect such as happiness in the workplace in order to generate better quality of teachers’ innovative behavior and sustain the teachers’ commitment especially in human capital formation work.
Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the mediating effects of workplace happiness on the relationship between school culture, affective commitment, and teachers’ innovative behavior. The study also examines the correlation between all the variables. The study sample consists of 835 teachers from 167 secondary schools in Northern part of Peninsular M...
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Statistical Validation of E-learning Assessment
Jesús Ortiz,
Antonio Aznar,
José I. Hernando,
Adriana Ortiz,
Jaime Cervera
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2016
Pages:
20-27
Received:
5 September 2016
Accepted:
14 September 2016
Published:
10 October 2016
DOI:
10.11648/j.tecs.20160101.13
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Abstract: This paper focuses on how to fulfill the objectivity and reliability goals, as well as the efficiency of the e-learning evaluation tools, and their integration in a blended evaluation system. In order to contribute to these goals, a new branch of statistics, i.e. “Statistical Learning”, has been chosen to support this study. The proposed techniques can be very simply implemented with little knowledge of arithmetic and with the help of a standard spreadsheet. These techniques can allow us to get the whole picture of the evaluation procedure output, in order to systematically sort the main categories of the different students, and to easily identify the outliers for further assessment.
Abstract: This paper focuses on how to fulfill the objectivity and reliability goals, as well as the efficiency of the e-learning evaluation tools, and their integration in a blended evaluation system. In order to contribute to these goals, a new branch of statistics, i.e. “Statistical Learning”, has been chosen to support this study. The proposed techniques...
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