Competencies of undergraduate physiotherapy education: A scoping review.
Tonderai W Shumba, Ara Tekian
PMID 38322654WHAT IT FOUND
Sixteen documents were included, and 19 potential competencies were mapped across five domains for undergraduate physiotherapy education in Namibia.
The framework is not validated and needs expert consensus before adoption.
Key findings
01The review included 16 documents.
02Nineteen potential competencies were identified and mapped to five WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework domains.
03The proposed Namibia competency framework requires expert consensus and content validation before adoption.
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What it does not show
The review included 16 documents. The authors could only access databases hosted by the University of Namibia. Articles with abstracts not in English were excluded, and the authors say this could have missed some crucial studies in other languages. Most included documents were from Oceania, and none were from Asia or South America. The proposed framework requires expert consensus and content validation before adoption.
Declared interests
The project was funded by the Foundation for the Advancement in International Medical Education and Research and by a Seed Corn Grant from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the proposed 19 competencies as a validated Namibian curriculum or registration standard. The paper states the competencies require expert consensus and content validation before adoption.