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PhD Thesis available from Monash University Library

https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Do_we_preach_what_we_practice_The_development_of_competency_frameworks_in_healthcare_professions_/19164818

A six-step model for developing competency frameworks in the healthcare professions

Competency frameworks are developed for a variety of purposes, including describing professional practice and informing education and assessment frameworks. Despite the volume of competency frameworks[…]

New ways of seeing: supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems thinking

05/05/2021 – this paper has now been accepted for publication in Advances in Health Sciences Education. The accepted version can be viewed here: The revised[…]

Writing advice from Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit.

Goodbye Mendeley, Hello Zotero!

This was a somewhat inevitable transition given my recent focus on privacy, data governance, sharing and the want for local control and access. I didn’t[…]

PhD overview: Do we preach what we practice? Capturing the complexities of clinical practice in health professions education.

My PhD research aims to explore competency frameworks in the health professions. This includes reviewing how they have been developed to date, outlining implications of[…]

CCME 2020 Abstracts and posters

In light of the cancellation of the Canadian Conference on Medical Education which was due to be held in Vancouver in April 2020, here are[…]

Preprint: Six steps in the right direction: guiding the development of competency frameworks in healthcare professions.

The second paper in my PhD is finally ready for peer-review. The abstract is contained below, and if you’re interested in reading the pre-print version,[…]

Updated writing workflow: PhD version

Following on from my description of my workflow for my Masters (http://alanbatt.net/?p=1112) I’ve recently shared my updated workflow with a number of friends, and online[…]

CONFERD-HP Guideline Registered

CONFERD-HP stands for the Guideline for Reporting COmpeteNcy FramEwoRk Development in Healthcare Professions. CONFERD-HP is a consensus-based reporting guideline that is being developed via the recommended EQUATOR Network methodology as a component of[…]