Student preparedness characteristics important for clinical learning: perspectives of supervisors from medicine, pharmacy and nursing

Autor: Purushotham Krishnappa, Afshan Sumera, Srinivasan Ramamurthy, Benny Efendie, Kamalan Jeevaratnam, Ray Peterson, H Banneheke, Vishna Devi Nadarajah, Sneha Ravindranath, Leela Chellamuthu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Students
Medical
020205 medical informatics
Higher education
Attitude of Health Personnel
Nurses
lcsh:Medicine
Pharmacy
02 engineering and technology
Pharmacists
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
Social skills
Physicians
Surveys and Questionnaires
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Humans
Learning
Medicine
Interpersonal Relations
030212 general & internal medicine
Curriculum
Medical education
lcsh:LC8-6691
Descriptive statistics
lcsh:Special aspects of education
business.industry
Communication
lcsh:R
Malaysia
Clinical preparedness
General Medicine
Clinical learning
Test (assessment)
Cross-Sectional Studies
Professionalism
Preparedness
Supervisor’s perspective
Clinical Competence
business
Null hypothesis
Research Article
Zdroj: BMC Medical Education, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
BMC Medical Education
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-017-0966-4
Popis: Background Student perspectives of clinical preparedness have been studied in the literature, but the viewpoint of supervisors is limited. Hence, the aim was to examine the perspective of supervisors on the characteristics of health professional students important for preparedness for clinical learning. Methods This was a descriptive, questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study conducted at three higher education institutions in Malaysia. A previously published questionnaire with 62 characteristics was adopted with modifications after pre-testing. Descriptive analysis was completed for the demographic data. The sample was grouped based on health profession, clinical practice experience and teaching experience for further analysis. Non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test was selected to evaluate differences in mean ranks to assess the null hypothesis that the medians are equal across the groups. Kruskal-Wallis post-hoc pair wise comparison was performed on samples with significant differences across samples. Results The sample was comprised of 173 supervisors from medicine (55, 32%), pharmacy (84, 48%) and nursing (34, 20%). The majority (63%) of the supervisors were currently in professional practice. A high percentage (40%) of supervisors had less than 4 years of teaching experience. The highest theme ratings were for willingness (6.00) and professionalism (5.90). There was a significant difference (p
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