Dr Amanda Torr Professional competence - a case study of NZ Pharmacy A set of competency based assessment against standards for initial registration in mid 90s. Govt brought in legislation that required assurance of ongoing competence across all health professions. Context of ongoing competence assurance you are assuming they are current so needed a different process from initial registration standards. Need to account for the expert or master level of competence. Competency is more than the sum of it's parts = metacompetency (slide5) Proposed five domains of competence: - cognitive - technical - legal/ ethical - organisational - intra/interpersonal (great diagrams of layering/overlap) Strengths in one domain leads to specialsation, whereas those with strength across all leads to 'experts'. Developed series of statements that would be able to differentiate between not yet competent, competent and expert pharmarcists. This was developed into self-assessment tool. Also from testing found seven factors that discriminated between different levels of performance. It would be interesting to talk with DELTA about these factors in relation to teachers undertaking qualifications. CPD - take it further than developing knowledge, to integrate developing self also. Q&A What do the pharmacists think? They like it, moves away from pharmacology etc, like the idea of developing other parts of their behavior as well. It validates the importance of all domains.