The SOFTVETS competence model : a preliminary project report

Kleinsorgen, Christin (author), Steinberg, Evelyn (author), Dömötör, Rudolf (author), Zabavnik Piano, Jelka (author), Rugelj, Jože (author), Mandoki, Mira (author), Radin, Lada (author)

Abstract Aim: Recent developments measured using statistics and surveys among veterinarians show that integrating key competence training into veterinary education is becoming increasingly important. This article describes the collaborative development process of the first work package within the SOFTVETS project. The SOFTVETS project aims to create a competence model and an ideal version of a soft skills curriculum that can be implemented in veterinary higher education throughout Europe. Method: In the course of a desk research phase, a literature review and an inventory of the current practice of key competence training within veterinary education was carried out. An initial set of recommendations for three competence areas was developed using the Handbook for Internal Quality Management in Competence-Based Higher Education. Finally, an alternating sequence of individual and collaborative expert reviews was carried out. Result: Experts from five European countries participated in the process. The derived competence model consisted of the following three competence areas with the corresponding number of defined competences: ten communication, nine entrepreneurial and eight digital competences. Conclusion: In the next work packages, learning objectives, teaching and assessment methods will be collected. Training concepts for facilitators to provide professional competence training will be established. In addition, an evaluation toolkit will be developed to standardise the implementation, evaluation and assessment of competence training events. The SOFTVETS competence model should help educators to be able to integrate the training of key competence training into the veterinary curriculum. This detailed list of competences can also be used as a tool to identify existing deficiencies and thus enable further curricular changes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: veterinary medicine education, communication, entrepreneurship, digital competences
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: VF - Veterinary Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 20 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 38, no. 3, art. Doc50
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126568
• UDC: 636.09:37
• ISSN on article: 2366-5017
• DOI: 10.3205/zma001446
• COBISS.SI-ID: 60724227
• Publication date in RUL: 28.04.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: GMS Journal for Medical Eduction
• Shortened title: GMS J. Med. Educ.
• Publisher: German Medical Science
• ISSN: 2366-5017
• COBISS.SI-ID: 525658649

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 15.03.2021

Secondary language

• Language: German
• Title: Das SOFTVETS-Kompetenzmodell

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: ERASMUS+ Program project
• Project number: Grant Agreement 2018-1HR01-KA203-047494
• Name: Pan-European Sofr skills curriculum for undergraduate veterinary education - SOFTVETS
• Acronym: SOFTVETS