A generic curriculum development model for the biomedical physics component of the educational and training programmes of the non-physics healthcare professions.

Autor: Caruana CJ; Medical Physics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. Electronic address: carmel.j.caruana@um.edu.mt., Karenauskaite V; Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania., Mornstein V; Department of Biophysics, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic., Vano E; Medical Physics, Radiology Department, School of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain., Pace E; Medical Physics, Medical Imaging Department, Mater Dei University Hospital, Msida, Malta., Lammertsma AA; Chair of EFOMP Education & Training Committee & Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Maas AJJ; Chair of EFOMP Professional Matters Committee & Member MREC Brabant, Tilburg, Netherlands., Bert C; Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany., Byrne B; Medical Physics, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland., Colgan N; School of Physics, National University of Ireland & Medical Physics, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland., Essers M; Medical Physics and Instrumentation, Institute Verbeeten, Netherlands., Isidoro J; Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal., Koniarova I; National Radiation Protection Institute, Department of Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy, Prague, Czech Republic., Makridou A; Medical Physics, Thessaloniki Cancer Hospital 'Theagenio', Thessaloniki, Greece., Pesznyak C; Radiotherapy Centre, National Institute of Oncology & Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary., Rønde HS; Medical Physics, Danish Centre for Particle Therapy, Aarhus Universitetshospital, Aarhus, Denmark., Winiecki J; Medical Physics Department, prof. Franciszek Lukaszczyk Memorial Oncology Centre & Collegium Medicum Nicholas Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) [Phys Med] 2021 May; Vol. 85, pp. 32-41. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2021.04.015
Abstrakt: The objective of the study was the construction of a generic curriculum development model for the use of biomedical physics (BMP) educators teaching the non-physics healthcare professions (HCP) in Europe. A comprehensive, qualitative cross-sectional Europe-wide survey of the curricula delivered by BMP in Faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) was carried out. Curricular content was collected from faculty web-sites, curricular documents and textbooks. The survey data was supplemented with semi-structured interviews and direct observation during onsite visits. The number of faculties studied was 118 from 67 universities spread all over Europe, whilst the number of onsite visits/interviews was 15 (geographically distributed as follows: Eastern Europe 6, North Western Europe 5, and South Western Europe 4). EU legislation, recommendations by European national medical councils, educational benchmark statements by higher education quality assurance agencies, research journals concerning HCP education and other documents relevant to standards in clinical practice and undergraduate education were also analyzed. Best practices and BMP learning outcomes were elicited from the curricular materials, interviews and documentation and these were subsequently used to construct the curriculum development model. A structured, comprehensive BMP learning outcomes inventory was designed in the format required by the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). The structures of the inventory and curriculum development model make them ideally suited for use by BMP involved in European curriculum development initiatives for the HCP.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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