Alan Batt
Doctorate
Doctorate Title: Do we preach what we practice? The development of competency frameworks in healthcare professions.
Doctorate Description: This PhD by publication explored competency frameworks in the health professions. I reviewed how they were developed to date, outlined implications of these findings, identified means by which the development process could be improved, and proposed updated reporting and evaluation processes. The project included the development of a competency framework as a worked example.
Details:
Type: PhD
University: Monash University
Primary Supervisor: Professor Brett Williams
Category: Education
Funding: Departmental Scholarship
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2021
Status: Complete
Thesis
ThesisThesis was awarded a Research Impact Award – HDR Student, School of Public and Allied Health, Monash University (2021)
Research Interests
Health professions education, vulnerable populations, patient safety, empathy, palliative care, community paramedicine.
Publications
Batt, A.M., Tavares, W., Williams, B. The development of competency frameworks in
healthcare professions: a scoping review. Advances in Health Sciences Education.
2020;25(4):913-987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-019-09946-w
Batt, A.M., Williams, B., Brydges, M., Leyenaar, M., Tavares, W. New ways of seeing:
supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems
thinking. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 2021; 26(4):1351-1377.
Batt, A.M., Williams, B., Rich, J., Tavares, W. A six-step model for developing
competency frameworks in the healthcare professions. Frontiers in Medicine: Healthcare
Professions Education. 8:789828. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.789828
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