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Exploring The Role Of Procedural Variations In Surgical Education, Tavis Apramian
Exploring The Role Of Procedural Variations In Surgical Education, Tavis Apramian
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Variations in practice and procedure permeate clinical work. While clinical research routinely investigates the consequences of these variations for clinical outcomes, we have little understanding of their implications for education. The current policy environment in medical education makes developing a new understanding of the role of variations in medical education especially important. Current policy reforms in the assessment of learners draw on the notion of competence to suggest that medical education should focus on the performance of learners in the workplace. The current turn toward workplace-based assessment positions the observations of faculty into key functions in these assessment frameworks; therefore, …
Community College Student Learning In Phlebotomy Preceptor-Led Clinical Internship, Susan E. Phelan
Community College Student Learning In Phlebotomy Preceptor-Led Clinical Internship, Susan E. Phelan
Educational Foundations & Leadership Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to describe how allied health preceptor-led clinical internship improves or expands community college student learning. There is a significant gap of information in the literature related to the importance of this clinical internship experience for the learning, socialization, and professional development of allied health students in general and community college students in particular. The absence of relevant data for these internships as a situated learning experience is evident in the literature review. The majority of the allied health work force is prepared by community colleges. Therefore, community college leaders need data to make data-driven …