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. 2022 Nov 10;11(1):2142405. doi: 10.1080/21614083.2022.2142405

Table 1.

Learning objectives for each core competency.

Core competency Objectives
Inter-Professional Collaboration
  • Advocate that healthcare professionals have a fundamental responsibility to work together to improve health outcomes for patients, families, and communities

  • Develop the leadership ability, self-confidence and skills to identify and deal with problems related to the inter-professional team

  • Foster mutual respect among team members

  • Demonstrate collaborative interactions – such as communication, responsibility, accountability, coordination, cooperation, assertiveness, autonomy – and the sharing of skills and knowledge to improve patient care

  • Review of motivational interviewing, to enhance communication skills, with patients and colleagues

Economies of the Healthcare System
  • Review the economic evaluations behind healthcare policies and guidelines

  • Critically evaluate economic evidence for clinical decision-making and intervention selection.

  • Advocate the importance of understanding health economics to improve clinical care.

Adult Learning Principles
  • Enhance awareness and understanding of international trends in Medical Education

  • Increase awareness, knowledge and confidence on “what are” and “how to apply”, principles of adult learning, for better education learning experience

Behavioural Science and Educational Psychology
  • Explain the importance of behaviour as a profound influence on human health

  • Describe the broad scope of evidence in behavioural science for models of behaviour and behaviour change

  • Apply knowledge of behaviour and behaviour change to solve problems relating to individuals’ health and well-being and to provide access to appropriate resources, such as behaviour change interventions

  • Advocate and place a high value on behavioural sciences as a key body of evidence to help improve health outcomes in individuals, families, interdisciplinary healthcare teams, and communities

  • Develop effective strategies for advocating change in workplace and the healthcare system

Leadership
  • Treating and managing patients with fragility fractures while coping with the COVID-19 crisis in members’ clinical settings

  • Leading and supporting yourself and colleagues in a crisis situation

  • Demonstrating resilience in times of crisis and adopt strategies for managing stress with the unknown

  • Discuss the present impact of COVID-19 on delivery of care

  • Review the current status of clinical practice guidelines for fragility fracture

  • Discuss the role of new ASBMR guidelines for secondary fracture prevention

  • Translate complex science in the field of fragility fractures to support other healthcare professionals

  • Discuss the role of telemedicine from the perspective of patients and healthcare providers, and the keys to becoming an effective virtual educator and facilitator

  • Develop problem-solving skills to facilitate effective team leadership

  • Identify workable solutions to current challenges in the delivery of care

Technology Literacy
  • Develop an awareness of current standards and policies, within your healthcare institution, on the use of healthcare technology.

  • Critically evaluate healthcare contexts in which the use and implementation of technology is appropriate.

  • Identify and resolve shortcomings in members’ approach to technology in the workplace

  • Advocate the use of technology with patients and interprofessional healthcare (IPC) team members.

  • Apply leadership skills to help team members adapt to and solve problems related to technology in the workplace.