Education and Training

Immersing Undergraduates into an Interprofessional Longitudinal Rural Placement

This article evaluates an Australian program that placed students from different health programs together, in a rural environment, for one or two semesters of the academic year to promote interprofessional learning. [adapted from abstract]

Study on Korean Nursing Students' Educational Outcomes

The purpose of this study was to describe outcome indicators of nursing education including critical thinking, professionalism, leadership, and communication and to evaluate differences among nursing programs and academic years. [from abstract]

Well Prepared for Work? Junior Doctors' Self-Assessment After Medical Education

This study examines the association between self-assessed deficits in medical skills and knowledge and the feeling of preparedness of junior doctors in order to determine which aspects of medical education need to be addressed in more detail in order to improve the quality of this transition phase and in order to increase patient safety. [from abstract]

Does Medical Students' Preference of Test Format (Computer-based vs. Paper-based) Have an Influence on Performance?

The aims of this study were to: assess the readiness and the objections of students to a compter-based examinations (CBE) versus paper-based; examine the acceptance and satisfaction with the CBE on a voluntary basis; and compare the results of the examinations, which were conducted in different formats. [from abstract]

Does Doctors' Workload Impact Supervision and Ward Activities of Final-Year Students? A Prospective Study

The aim of this study was to objectively investigate whether the workload arising from increased patient care interferes with student supervision and is associated with more non-medical activities of final-year medical students. [from abstract]

Reflections of Students Graduating from a Transforming Medical Curriculum in South Africa: A Qualitative Study

This research evaluated the graduating students’ perceptions of transformed curriculum called the Graduate Entry Medical Programme in South Africa. [adapted from abstract]

Training Health Care Professionals in Root Cause Analysis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Post-Training Experiences, Benefits and Attitudes

This cross-section study evaluates the effectiveness of training programs to build the local capacity and capability of health workers in root cause analysis (RCA), used to investigate patient safety incidents and facilitate organizational learning. [adapted from abstract]

Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Supervisors and Non-Supervisors of Allied Health Professional Students

This study sought to characterise the allied health professional (AHP) workforce of the Northern Territory, Australia, in order to understand the influence of student supervision on workload, job satisfaction, and recruitment and retention. [from abstract]

Case Study: Scaling Up Education and Training of Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia: Moving Towards Achieving the MDGs

This case study share lessons learned and recommendations related Ethiopia’s scaling up the preservice education of health-care workers in order to solve the critical shortage of staff in health-care facilities, and ultimately to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. [adapted from summary]

Sources of Stress in Nursing Students: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies

This study aimed to identify the main sources of stress for students of nursing and the evolution of the stressors when training in nursing competences. [from abstract]

Nurses' and Managers' Perceptions of Continuing Professional Development for Older and Younger Nurses: A Focus Group Study

This study explored nurses’ and their managers’ perceptions of the differences in continuing professional development between younger and older nurses. [from abstract]

Additional Years of Australian Rural Clinical School Undergraduate Training Is Associated with Rural Practice

The objective of this study was to understand the influence of the number of years spent at an Australian rural clinical school on graduates’ current, preferred current and intended location for rural workforce practice. [from abstract]

Short and Long-Term Transfer of Urethral Catheterization Skills from Simulation Training to Performance on Patients

Although training on simulators is common, little is known about the transfer of learned skills to real clinical practice. This study aimed to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of urethral catheterization simulated skills training on performance on real patients and to examine whether watching a video of the procedure immediately before assessment enhanced clinical performance. [from abstract]

Scaling up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach

This technical brief presents an overview of an approach to help identify critical bottlenecks to providing quality preservice education and prioritize affordable actions for increasing the quantity of graduates while maintaining or improving the quality of education. [from publisher]

Human Resources for Health Professional Development at the District Level: Recommendations Based on the Ugandan Experience

This report shares lessons learned from Uganda and, using this experience as a foundation, offers selected suggestions for how other countries might develop and implement HRH professional development programs at subnational levels. [from publisher]

Innovative Financing Options for the Preservice Education of Health Professionals

This technical brief presents a summary of the forms of financing proposed or documented through an exploration of innovative solutions for the financing of health worker education. [from publisher]

Development and Validation of the Competence in Evidence Based Practice Questionnaire (EBP-COQ) among Nursing Students

Nursing educators need rigorously developed instruments to assess competency in evidence based practice (EBP) at undergraduate level. This study aims to develop a psychometric test of the EBP competence questionnaire among undergraduate nursing students. [adapted from abstract]

Role of SimMan in Teaching Clinical Skills to Preclinical Medical Students

Medical simulation is considered to bridge the gap between the classroom and clinical environment, and it enables learners, from novice to expert to practice and develop clinical skills without any fear of harm to patients. This study evaluated the effectiveness of simulation training in developing clinical skills in pre-clinical medical students. [adapted from author]

Language, Culture and International Exchange of Virtual Patients

This research evaluated whether it would be feasible to use virtual patients (VPs), a learning system designed to simulate encounters between a patient and a healthcare professional, for and educational program in a medical school in Romanian, with cases in English and developed in a non-Romanian setting.

Innovative Blended Learning Approach Using Virtual Patients as Preparation for Skills Laboratory Training: Perceptions of Students and Teachers

This study investigated how students and tutors perceive a blended learning approach using virtual patients as preparation for medical students for skills laboratory training. [adapted from author]

Medical Residents' Perceptions of Their Competencies and Training Needs in Health Care Management: An International Comparison

The authors’ objective was to explore if the perceived deficiencies and needs for management training among Dutch residents were similar to those of their peers in other countries, and if a longer duration of the incorporation of a competency framework into curricula as well as management training had an influence on these perceptions. [adapted from author]

Ethics Curriculum for Short-Term Global Health Trainees

This article outlines and evaluates an introductory curriculum on ethical challenges for health workers training in global health. [adapted from author]

eLearning in Medical Education in Resource Constrained Low- and Middle-Income Countries

In the face of severe faculty shortages in resource-constrained countries, medical schools look to e-learning for improved access to medical education. This paper summarizes the literature on eLearning in low- and middle-income countries, and presents the spectrum of tools and strategies used. [from abstract]

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education: A Cross-Sectional Study of Medical Students' Preferences and Attitudes

The authors surveyed medical students to assess preferences and attitudes about quality improvement and patient safety education to determine how these important skills could best be integrated into the curiculum. [adapted from abstract]

Learning Objects? Nurse Educators' Views on Using Patients for Student Learning: Ethics and Consent

This study explored the views of nursing lecturers concerning the use of patients in nursing education, particularly in light of the development of additional learning opportunities such as clinical simulation. [from abstract]

Teaching Medical Students Neonatal Resuscitation: Knowledge Gained and Retained from a Brief Simulation-based Training Workshop

This study assessed the effectiveness of a neonatal resuscitation training workshop for final-year medical students in Malaysia in improving knowledge immediately post-training and at the end of the year. [adapted from abstract]

Nourishing Networks: An Interprofessional Learning Model and Its Application to the Australian Rural Health Workforce

This article describes a model for interprofessional learning developed to address the barriers related to the delivery of interprofessional education in the rural health setting in Australia across a number of health disciplines. [adapted from abstract]

Continuing Education Training Focused on the Development of Behavioral Telehealth Competencies in Behavioral Healthcare Providers

This study assessed the impact of a behavioral telehealth ethical competencies training program on behavioral health providers’ development of behavioral telehealth competency. Video vignettes evaluating the 14 competencies, self-reported competence surveys and follow-up surveys of progress on telehealth goals were utilized to assess effects of the training. [adapted from abstract]

Exploration of Student Experiences of Using Biology Podcasts in Nursing Training

The aim of this study was to explore nursing students’ perceptions of the usefulness of supplementary biology podcasts for their learning. [from abstract]

Tracking University Graduates in the Workforce: Information to Improve Education and Health Systems in Tanzania

The authors discuss the overlooked but significant role of universities in collecting, managing, and using human resources data in Tanzania and in other countries struggling to build their health workforce. They present options for Tanzania which are of relevance to other countries developing information systems for human resources for health. [from publisher]