Professional Competence This thesis explores the concept of professional competence, how it is defined and how it evolves through on-going practice into specialist practice and/or expertise. It uses complexity theory to propose a model of professional competence that moves beyond traditional conceptions of competence that are based on the separation of behaviours, functions and tasks. The model developed conceptualises professional competence as a complete entity in its own right that comprises the integrated knowledge, skills and attributes associaled with five domains of...