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Cet article présente les résultats de l'étude de la mise en place d'un certificat de compétences cliniques à travers la conception et la mise en œuvre d'un environnement informatique. Cet environnement informatique vise, d'une part, à équiper cet examen et, d'autre part, à mener une démarche réflexive le concernant. Les résultats des étudiants à cet examen montrent l'absence de redondance avec ceux des épreuves classantes typiques de ce parcours de formation. En confrontant les retours des étudiants au travers de questionnaires anonymes et l'étude du dispositif de formation lui-mme, nous interrogeons l'approche qui le sous-tend concernant les compétences en général et les compétences relationnelles en particulier. Abstract: This paper presents the results of the study of the implementation of a clinical aptitude certificate through the design and implementation of an IT environment. This IT environment aims on the one hand to equip this examination, and on the other hand to conduct a reflexive approach concerning it. The students' results in this examination show no redundancy with those of the ranking tests typical of this training program. By comparing student feedback through anonymous questionnaires and the study of the training system itself, we question the underlying approach to skills in general and relational skills in particular.

CityShark, a station dedicated to ambient noise (microtremor) recording, was designed and built jointly by the French Institute for Research for Development (IRD) and LEAS, a French company dedicated to geophysical data acquisition. Because portable seismic stations are designed to be installed for long time periods (days to months) and to detect earthquakes, operators using them for microtremor recording face several obstacles that considerably slow and complicate the data acquisition process. Seismological stations are not easy to use in experiments for which time of recording is on the order of tens of minutes (site studies) or for repetitive recording of several minutes at interval times on the order of hours (building response studies). Running seismological stations requires setting a series of parameters ( e.g., STA, LTA, trigger level, pre-event memory), usually by communicating with the station with the help of an external computer. The data recorded are then downloaded using a portable computer or by manipulation of a removable high-capacity storage medium. In order to maximize the station autonomy, data are often compressed and power consumption is minimized. The use of a GPS receiver is needed for time accuracy. All the equipment must be packaged in a rugged box to be able to function in extreme environments ( e.g., rain, sun, snow, wind, and dust). Finally, these stations need to be installed and run by well trained people. These stations are made to record earthquakes and avoid recording ambient noise, i.e., the opposite goal of microtremor recording. Hence, the use of portable seismological stations for microtremor recording considerably slows data acquisition, and data processing is needlessly complicated. Running microtremor experiments for site studies in Pujili, Ecuador (Gueguen et al., 1998) and Nazca, Peru (Chatelain et al., 1997) and encountering the kind of problems mentioned above led us to the idea of building …