Hi Shan,
I am unclear whether your query regarded the issue of a discreet licensure exam or what it aims to assess. If the latter, then most allied health professions including physio, OT, radiography and radiotherapy, speech and language therapy and podiatry assess such competence issues on clinical placements which students undertake on a number of occasions during their undergraduate education. Nursing and other health and medical professions may do the same.
There is very little published literature on assessment of clinical competence. However, the wide use of clinical competence testing means that numerous sources of information are potentially available.
Jenny
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From: Wareing S [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 May 2002 09:16
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Subject: assessing clinical competence to practice
Hi ISLers
My husband works in a complementary medicine college, where the students get
a BSc Hons degree, which qualifies them to take the 'clinical competence'
exam of the regulatory body which licenses them to practice (as osteopaths).
The aim of the clinical competence exam is to assess e.g. the quality of
clinical reasoning and line of questioning prior to forming a diagnosis. Is
anyone out there doing something similar in this or another field, and if so
how? Or does anyone know of any literature on this area?
Thanks!
Shan
Dr Shan Wareing
Director of the Educational Development Centre
Royal Holloway
University of London,
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX
tel: (01784) 414291
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http://www.rhul.ac.uk/edc
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