Browsing Research Publications by Author "McMillan, Wendy"
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Being and becoming a university teacher
McMillan, Wendy; Gordon, Natalie (Taylor & Francis, 2016)This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was ... -
Finding a method to analyse qualitative data: using a study of conceptual learning
McMillan, Wendy (American Association of Dental Schools, 2009)There is increasing awareness in the health sciences of the potential of qualitative research to address questions that quantitative research cannot satisfactorily answer. While a growing number of studies in health sciences ... -
Gender and race distribution of dental graduates (1985 - 2004) and first year dental students (2000 - 2005) in South Africa
McMillan, Wendy; Lalloo, R.; Gugushe, T.S.; Ligthelm, A.J.; Evans, W.G.; Moola, Mohamad H. (South African Dental Association, 2005)This paper, written at the close of a decade of democracy in South Africa, sets out to analyse the demographic profile of dental graduates from 1985-2004 at the five Faculties/Schools of Dentistry in South Africa. A ... -
Making the most of teaching at the chairside
McMillan, Wendy (Wiley, 2011)This paper examines the chairside as an opportunity for teaching and learning. It sets out to understand how students learn in the dental clinic so that they can better be supported in their clinical learning. The paper ... -
"Quality is bound up with our values" - Evaluating the quality of mentoring programmes
McMillan, Wendy; Parker, M.E. (Routledge, 2005)This paper discusses quality evaluation of health sciences mentoring programmes. The discussion highlights the way in which perceptions of what constitutes quality shape evaluative purposes. Potential tensions between ... -
Recruiting and retaining rural students: evidence from a Faculty of Dentistry in South Africa
McMillan, Wendy; Barrie, Robert (Deakin University, 2012)There is a shortage internationally of adequately trained health professionals to service rural areas. Health professionals are more likely to practice in communities that are like the one in which they grew up. The WHO ... -
Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links
McMillan, Wendy (Informa Healthcare, 2010)INTRODUCTION: The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer ... -
"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to university
McMillan, Wendy (Routledge, 2014)Most new students experience school to university transition as challenging. Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic ... -
Transition to university: the role played by emotion
McMillan, Wendy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Students experience transition to university as challenging. Recent studies implicate emotion in university success. This paper reports on a pilot study to examine the extent to which school to university transition is ... -
Understanding diversity as a framework for improving student throughput
McMillan, Wendy (Maastricht University, 2007)INTRODUCTION: Literature suggests that a diverse body of healthcare graduates could extend health service delivery. However, the literature also indicates that the throughput of minority, working class, and historically ... -
Understanding what it means to be a health practitioner: biographies of care and concern
McMillan, Wendy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)INTRODUCTION: I am not a health practitioner, although I work in a Health Sciences Faculty. As the faculty’s ‘Education Advisor’, I am intimately involved in the education of health practitioners. I mentor students to learn ... -
"We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developing academic competence in all students
McMillan, Wendy (American Association of Dental Schools, 2005)This article is located in the field of academic development in oral health science education. Specifically, it examines the academic difficulties experienced by oral hygiene students in their transition from high school ... -
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
McMillan, Wendy (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ...