Seventeen Competencies for health practitioners (Pew
Competencies)
1. Access and use technology appropriately
2. Improve the health system
3. Manage information
4. Understand the role of the physical environment in
health
5. Provide counseling on ethical issues
6. Accommodate expanded accountability
7. Participate in a racially and culturally diverse
society
8. Continue to learn
9. Care for the community’s health
10.
Expand access to
effective care
11.
Provide contemporary
clinical care
12.
Emphasize primary care
13.
Participate in
coordinated care
14.
Ensure cost-effective
and appropriate care
15.
Practice prevention
16.
Involve patients and
families in the decision making process
17.
Promote healthy
lifestyles
Source: Pew Health Professions Commission, Healthy America:
Practitioners for 2005, Center for the Health Professions, University of
California, San Francisco, October 1991.
Measure Unchangeable, Constant, Core
Competencies