Who intends to use a competency framework: The case of internship supervisor in general medicine
The General Medicine Department of the University of Liège has developed a competency framework. The present study aims at finding out how internship supervisors intend to use this framework. In order to identify the predictable elements of the supervisors’ intentions, we use Ajzen’s (1985, 1991) theory of planned behavior. To this end we designed a questionnaire that directly and indirectly measuresthe various parameters of the model, i.e. behaviors, social norms and perceived control, on the basis of seven interviews with internship supervisors. The questionnaire was then submitted to the population of internship supervisors. We obtained 68 replies. After having performed hierarchical linear regressions, we came to the conclusion that behaviors, social norms and perceived control makeup 83 % of the intention to use the competency framework. Other analyses enabled us to determine the levers and obstacles which directly influence such intention.