Assessing and Comparing Global Health Competencies in Rehabilitation Students

Table 3

Perceived global health skills for physiotherapy and occupational therapy students guided by the CanMEDS framework.

Skills	Physiotherapy students’ score* (%)	Occupational therapy students’ score* (%)
Communication skills	60.00	54.34
Listening skills	76.17	72.68
Able to understand patient with different background skills	54.04	56.63
Address team disagreement skills	52.69	42.89
Discuss sensitive issues skills	49.62	48.95
Identify needs skills	63.28	56.84
Helping patients achieve realistic goals skills	55.68	47.83
Working in a team skills	55.47	53.95
Clinical competency Skills	69.62	67.11
Keep up to date in global health skills	50.47	53.16
Active in global health skills	33.09	33.42

∗Average perceived knowledge and skills percentage for each domain varied for item scale between 0 and 1 (item scale [0-1]: for negative questions: 1 = strongly disagree, 0.75 = disagree, 0.50 = neutral, 0.25 = agree, 0 = strongly agree); for positive questions (1 = strongly agree, 0.75 = agree, 0.50 = neutral, 0.25 = disagree, 0 = strongly disagree).