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PubMed1994

Evaluation of professional competency in occupational hygiene in Canada--the CRBOH program. Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists.

The Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (CRBOH) was established in 1986 to provide a registration system for professional occupational hygienists in Canada. It was decided that registration would be based on a competency examination following an appropriate combination of academic qualification and relevant professional experience. While the examination was being developed hygienists who met certain educational and experience requirements and who held other certifications by examination (such as those of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, the British Examining and Board in Occupational Hygiene, or the Conseil d'Accrediation en Hygiene Industrielle du Quebec) were registered. In 1989 CRBOH, after much deliberation and review of other existing certification examinations, selected a two-part scheme consisting of both written and oral examinations. The written examination includes both multiple choice and essay style questions. Only those candidates successfully completing the written examination are eligible for the oral examination. The first group of candidates was examined in the fall of 1990. The authors outline the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of evaluation of professional competency. The rationale for the selection of the CRBOH examination format is discussed in relation to forms of evaluation currently being used in the United States and the United Kingdom. The implication of CRBOH registration on the training and education of occupational hygienists in Canada is highlighted.

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PubMed1995

Good researcher, poor midwife: an investigation into the impact of central trait descriptions on assumptions of professional competencies.

OBJECTIVE: in an attempt to explain the serious shortfall in published midwifery research an attempt was made to assess whether the way in which midwives construe their professional role acts as a deterrent to undertaking research. DESIGN: different subject experimental. SETTING: a college of nursing and midwifery in central England. PARTICIPANTS: 30 midwives attending postregistration continuing education courses. INTERVENTIONS: the midwives were divided into two groups and were asked to imagine that they were interviewing a candidate for a midwifery post following Asch's (1946) paradigm. The candidate had been described by her referee using six adjectives. Five of these were common to both groups of subjects, but the sixth descriptor for one group was 'good clinician', while for the other group it was 'good researcher'. MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS: the groups were asked to assess how much of each of 16 dimensional traits their candidate possessed. Analysis of the findings, using unrelated t-tests, suggested that if the candidate had been described as a poor researcher, it was also assumed that the candidate was more ambitious, a poorer communicator, less kind, stronger, more logical, less emotional, more confident, less popular, less compassionate, more rational, more organised and more analytical than the candidate described as a good clinician. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: these findings suggest that if midwives are to become more research active they can only do so if they sacrifice their constructs of themselves as good midwives. If midwifery is to accept research as part of its responsibility it appears that there has to be a radical shift in predispositional assumptions to integrate the traits required for good clinical practice, sound research and femaleness?

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