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Competency assessment
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Correspondence to:
Colville Laird
Associate Editor: claird@basics-scotland.org.uk
The need to look at assessment of competence in prehospital care education
Keywords: Prehospital care
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At the present time there is a need to look at the assessment of competence in prehospital care education. This is necessitated by the changing structure of the Health Service particularly the delivery of unscheduled care. These changes are resulting in new types of practitioners, mostly from the ambulance and nursing professions, taking major roles in providing this service. These professions require a system, which allows the practitioners and their supervisors to assess their competence to practice. In addition to this, such certification should ideally give these practitioners credits, which can be accumulated and ultimately lead to university level qualifications.
The reality of such training is that only so much of the training can be achieved by teaching and study, whether it be in a classroom environment or computer/internet based. Much of this learning has to take place in either supervised practice preceded or accompanied by training in
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