professional competence

Preferred Label : professional competence;

MeSH definition : The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality.;

MeSH synonym : competence, professional;

MeSH hyponym : technical expertise; generalization of expertise; Expertise Generalization; Expertise, Technical;

MeSH annotation : competence in any profession or discipline: differentiate from CLINICAL COMPETENCE which is restricted to competence in professional activities directly related to patient care;

Details

Origin ID

D011361;

UMLS CUI

C0033278;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- clinical competency [Q-code]
- teaching evaluation [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- generalization of expertise [MeSH concept]
- professional competence [MeSH concept]
- technical expertise [MeSH concept]
See also
- Professionalism [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- aptitude [MeSH Descriptor]
- competency-based education [MeSH Descriptor]
- occupational medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Semantic type(s)
- Qualitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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