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Professional Competence

"Professional Competence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Professional Competence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Professional Competence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003 and 2008 and 2019
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