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Proficient until proven unproficient? Exploring attitudes and perceptions of medical specialists on proficiency, proficiency requirements and proficiency tests for electrosurgery

International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND: The correct and safe use of electrosurgery requires medical specialists to be proficient. Minimum proficiency requirements and proficiency tests are a manner to structurally assure proficiency. The objective of this study is to explore attitudes and perceptions of medical specialists on proficiency, proficiency requirements and proficiency ...
Maat, Laura   +3 more
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Proficiency

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
In this article we argue against a definitional approach to oral proficiency and in favor of a principled approach based on sound theoretical considerations. We first identify four problematic frends in the oral proficiency movement as it is currently conceived: the tail wagging the dog, false authenticity, premature institutionalization, and the ...
James P. Lantolf, William Frawley
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A Proficient Enzyme

Science, 1995
Orotic acid is decarboxylated with a half-time (t 1/2 ) of 78 million years in neutral aqueous solution at room temperature, as indicated by reactions in quartz tubes at elevated temperatures. Spontaneous hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds, such as those present in the backbone of DNA, proceeds even more slowly at ...
A, Radzicka, R, Wolfenden
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Beyond Proficiency

English Text Construction, 2019
AbstractMany studies have investigated the correlations between linguistic features and human judgements of writing quality. These studies usually investigate either proficient student writing or exceptional literary writing. The current study attempts to bridge these two perspectives by comparing proficient writing to award-winning exceptional writing
Stuart G. Towns, Richard Watson Todd
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Proficiency in Neurosurgery

2001
This evaluation of proficiency is a comparison of other high performance occupations with neurosurgeons, an attempt to understand the minimal number of cases required for proficiency during both residency training and after, and the effect of human factors.
W A, Buchheit, D W, Andrews
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Math proficiency

Communications of the ACM, 1983
A computer science aptitude predictor was administered to students enrolled in a first technical course in computer science to determine potential for success. The study revealed significant differences in the scoring between students who withdrew from the course and those students who did not. The causes for the differences all related to
John Konvalina   +2 more
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