© 2005 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, and British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine
PREHOSPITAL CARE
Competence in prehospital care: evolving concepts
1 Specialist Registrar in Accident and Emergency Medicine and Immediate Care, Royal London Hospital, London, UK. Doctor, MAGPAS
2 Clinical Research Fellow in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine, MAGPAS
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
R Mackenzie
MAGPAS, 105 Needingworth Road, St Ives, Cambs PE27 5WF, UK; info{at}magpas.org.uk
Competence based training and assessment has become central to education and training for healthcare professionals. There continues to be uncertainty about the meaning of competence and how the principles underpinning competence based training and assessment can be applied to evolving subspecialty and multidisciplinary areas such as prehospital care. Considerable development work has been undertaken on a national level with the creation of a Competence Framework for Emergency Care. This article explores the concepts of competence, defines the terminology, and describes the role of a competence framework in education and training.
Abbreviations: CFEC, Competence Framework for Emergency Care; GMC, General Medical Council; IBTICM, Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine; PMETB, Post Graduate Medical Education and Training Board; RCA, Royal College of Anaesthetists
Keywords: Competence; competence based training; competence framework; pre-hospital care
Relevant Articles
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Emerg. Med. J. 2005 22: 463.
Emerg. Med. J. 2005 22: 464.
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Mackenzie, R.
(2007). Prehospital and retrieval medicine. Emerg. Med. J.
24: 450-450
[Full Text] -
Donald, M, Paterson, B
(2007). Introduction of an electronic debrief and governance tool in prehospital care. Emerg. Med. J.
24: 363-366
[Abstract] [Full Text]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
