BME-657 Professional Competencies

The following table lists and describes the professional competencies by which students are evaluated.

Professional Competency

Demonstrated Outcomes

#1: To act as a professional inheritor, critic, and interpreter of knowledge or culture when working with management and colleagues

·         Demonstrate sound knowledge of the field in which the host organization operates

·         Understand the organizational mission, goals and culture

·         Make relevant and meaningful contributions to projects

·         Engage critically with projects, while demonstrating empathy and diplomacy

#2: To communicate clearly within the host organization, both orally and in writing, using correct grammar, in various contexts related to the project

·         Demonstrate excellent oral and written language skill appropriate to the audience

·         Communicate effectively and professionally with ease, precision, clarity and accuracy

#3: To develop a schedule / work plan that is appropriate to the project and host organization, with a view to achieving milestones

·         Create a clear and detailed project plan that fits logically within host organization objectives

·         Address potential risks and obstacles

·         Present reasonably challenging objectives that enable progress towards achieving milestones

#4: To implement a schedule / work plan that is appropriate to the project and organization, with a view to achieving milestones

·         Manage projects with purposeful activities

·         Engage in teamwork

·         Detect and remedy realized risks and obstacles

#5: To evaluate progress in achieving project/organizational objectives

·         Develop a framework to track and evaluate progress

·         Recognize, interpret and act upon progress evaluations

·         Recognize adjustment required in planning or execution

·         Share assessment results with management and colleagues (as appropriate)

·         Determine helpful remedies for realized risks and obstacles

#6: To plan, organize and manage day-to-day activities in such a way as to promote project/organizational development

·         Establish and maintain routines that ensure the smooth progression of projects

·         Identify and correct organizational problems that hinder the smooth progression of projects

·         Establish and apply methods to solve problems that hinder project/organizational development

·         Model appropriately professional behaviour at all times

#7: To adapt project management to the particular needs and characteristics of the organization

·         Adjust to challenges specific to the organization or project (e.g. lack of resources, emerging technology)

#8: To integrate prior technical/academic knowledge in the planning and implementation of projects and for professional development purposes

·         Make strategic use of prior technical/academic knowledge to further project/organizational goals

·         Know how to integrate prior knowledge when appropriate into project/organizational activities

·         Employ prior knowledge to interact in professional and intellectual contexts

·         Model and employ critical judgement when using prior knowledge

#9: To cooperate with organization staff and partners in the community in pursuing organizational objectives

·         Understand how to work as part of a professional team

·         Participate and add to the mission, life and community of the host organization

·         Understand how to establish and build trusting relationships

#10: To cooperate with members of the project team in achieving project milestones

·         Contribute to the work of the project team in an effective manner

·         Take and give constructive criticism and make useful, innovative suggestions with respect to the furthering of project/organizational goals

#11: To engage in professional development individually and with others

·         Identify their own level of achievement in professional competency development

·         Access and use available resources to improve professional skills

·         Be a critical, reflective practitioner

·         Undertake research projects related to specific aspects of their work and/or objectives of the host organization

#12: To demonstrate ethical and responsible professional behavior in the performance of their duties

·         Be trusted, without reservation, as a colleague

·         Display diligence, responsibility, discretion, fairness, respect, acceptance and caring in all dealing with management, colleagues, and partners in the community

·         Support actions with well-founded reason

·         Be aware of, and abide by, the legal and regulatory obligations of the profession