胜任特征是管理学领域得到深入研究的热点之一。本文简要介绍胜任特征和胜任特征模型的概念、构建胜任特征模型的方法;详细介绍爱尔兰、英国、加拿大、美国、世界物理治疗联盟、澳大利亚发布的有关物理治疗师胜任特征文件（或类似文件）,并简单介绍国内物理治疗师胜任特征研究的情况。

Competency has been talked and studied a lot on management science. This article briefly reviewed the concept of competency and competency model with its construction methodology. The details of the documents （or analogous documents）, that described the competencies for physical therapist published by Ireland, UK, Canada, USA, World Confederation for Physical Therapy, and Australia, were introduced. Then the research development of competencies for physical therapist in China was represented.