title: Continuing competence in selected health care professions.
abstract: Health services professionals are confronting the challenge of maintaining and improving competence over the course of lengthy careers in diverse practice specialties. This article reviews the efforts of a selection of health care professions to ensure lifetime competence and reviews some of the challenges encountered in these efforts. Although each profession has its own issues, significant generic questions are common to all.
authors.affiliation: Urban Health Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Burden S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Lundgren
authors.forename: Clare A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Houseman
mesh_terms: D016390:Allied Health Occupations / Q000145:classification / Q000193:education*; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence; D014481:United States