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Sultz HA, Sawner KA, Sherwin FS. Determining and maintaining competence: an obligation of allied health education. J Allied Health. 1984;13(4):272-9
Sultz, H. A., Sawner, K. A., & Sherwin, F. S. (1984). Determining and maintaining competence: an obligation of allied health education. Journal of allied health, 13(4), 272-9.
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Sultz HA, Sawner KA, Sherwin FS. Determining and maintaining competence: an obligation of allied health education. J Allied Health. 1984 Nov;13(4):272-9. PMID: 6511647.
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J Allied Health. 1984 Nov;13(4):272-9.

Determining and maintaining competence: an obligation of allied health education.

Journal of allied health

H A Sultz, K A Sawner, F S Sherwin

PMID: 6511647

Abstract

In a climate of growing concern about the costs and quality of health care, there is increasing evidence that the health care system lacks effective controls to assure the continuing competence of health practitioners. The assumption that educational institutions, and specifically those that prepare allied health professionals, can meet obligations to the clinical community and the public by means of the present haphazard system of voluntary continuing education is questioned. Instead, the author suggests that schools of allied health may have to collaborate with professional organizations in identifying individual deficiencies in clinical practice and in offering remedial, continuing education programs that address these deficiencies. The rationale for the assumption of this unique responsibility for determining and maintaining clinical competence by schools of allied health is explored.

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