{"id":3822,"date":"2021-11-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:07:06","slug":"a-six-step-model-for-developing-competency-frameworks-in-the-healthcare-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?p=3822","title":{"rendered":"A six-step model for developing competency frameworks in the healthcare professions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 developed in  the healthcare professions, guidance remains unclear and is  inconsistently adhered to (perhaps in part due to a lack of organising  frameworks), there is variability in methodological choices,  inconsistently reported outputs, and a lack of evaluation of frameworks.  As such, we proposed the need for improved guidance. In this paper we  outline a six-step model for developing competency framework that is  designed to address some of these shortcomings. The six-steps comprise  [1] identifying purpose, intended uses, scope, and stakeholders; [2]  theoretically informed ways of identifying the contexts of complex,  \u2018real-world\u2019 professional practice, which includes [3] aligned methods  and means by which practice can be explored; [4] the identification and  specification of competencies required for professional practice, [5]  how to report the process and outputs of identifying such competencies,  and [6] built-in strategies to continuously evaluate, update and  maintain competency framework development processes and outputs. The  model synthesizes and organizes existing guidance and literature, and  furthers this existing guidance by highlighting the need for a  theoretically-informed approach to describing and exploring practice  that is appropriate, as well as offering guidance for developers on  reporting the development process and outputs, and planning for the  ongoing maintenance of frameworks.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in Frontiers in Medicine (open-access): <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2021.789828 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2021.789828\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2021.789828<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-print available from preprints.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202103.0296\/v3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202103.0296\/v3 (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202103.0296\/v3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 developed in the healthcare professions, guidance remains unclear and is inconsistently adhered to (perhaps in part due to a lack of organising frameworks), there is variability in methodological choices, inconsistently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,70,65,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-frontpage","category-phd","category-publications"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector.jpg",1920,1920,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector.jpg",1920,1920,false],"kubio-fullhd":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1080x1080.jpg",1080,1080,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Alan","author_link":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Competency frameworks are developed for a variety of purposes, including describing professional practice and informing education and assessment frameworks. 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