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Students’ Knowledge And Attitudes: An Interprofessional Education Workshop And Experience, Patricia Davidson, Scott Heinerichs, Melissa Reed, Elizabeth Grillo, Christine Thomas, Gopal Sankaran, Neil Curtis, Nadine Bean
Students’ Knowledge And Attitudes: An Interprofessional Education Workshop And Experience, Patricia Davidson, Scott Heinerichs, Melissa Reed, Elizabeth Grillo, Christine Thomas, Gopal Sankaran, Neil Curtis, Nadine Bean
International Journal of Health Sciences Education
Background: Interprofessional Education (IPE) can improve teamwork among future healthcare professionals, but the academic structural environment can be a barrier to its implementation.
Methods and Results: Students from seven professional programs (athletic training. exercise science, nursing, nutrition, public health, social work, and speech-language pathology) participated in a two-part IPE program consisting of: a web-based education module and an in-person interactive workshop. Students were administered a deidentified pre/post survey to assess changes in their knowledge and attitudes toward IPE. A total of 54 students participated in both components with 46 students completing both surveys. After participating in the IPE …
Reviewing Failure As Part Of Reflection: A Potential Predictor Of Health Sciences Students’ Successes, Michael Cop, Hunter Hatfield
Reviewing Failure As Part Of Reflection: A Potential Predictor Of Health Sciences Students’ Successes, Michael Cop, Hunter Hatfield
International Journal of Health Sciences Education
Purpose: The authors examined Health Sciences students’ willingness to reflect on an academic failure at the students’ point-of-entrance into university in order to gauge how students’ willingness to engage in reflective tasks might be predictive of their subsequent academic success and, ultimately, of their potential to become health professionals.
Methods: Following Health Sciences students’ failure on an English diagnostic test, the authors determined the proportion of 568 Health Sciences students who voluntarily reviewed or did not review (SR and SNR respectively) their failed tests before sitting a second-chance test 60 days later. The authors then compared the improvements between SR …