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Facilitating community-based interprofessional education and collaborative practice in a health sciences faculty: student perceptions and experiences
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Interprofessional education (IPE) aims at facilitating the collaborative practice of healthcare professionals. However, students have varied
experiences with IPE and the collaborative practice initiatives ...
Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
While technology has the potential to create opportunities for transformative learning in higher education, it is often used to merely reinforce didactic teaching that aims to control access to expert knowledge. Instead, ...
Beyond the lecture: Teaching for professional development
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)
BACKGROUND. Clinical educators are being challenged to graduate students who can adapt to complex situations. Evidence suggests that one must go
beyond teaching students what to know and what to do, and help them learn ...
Randomised controlled trials in educational research: Ontological and epistemological limitations
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are a valued research method in evidence-based practice in medical and clinical settings because they are
associated with a particular ontological and epistemological perspective that ...
Barriers experienced by service providers and caregivers in clubfoot management in Kenya
(SAGE Publications, 2015)
Disability in childhood remains a challenge globally. Linked to this disability is an apparent increase in the prevalence of infants born with congenital clubfoot. Clubfoot can, however, be effectively managed but this ...
Characteristics and outcomes of gunshot-acquired spinal cord injury in South Africa
(South African Medical Association, 2017)
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) caused by assault present a unique challenge facing the healthcare system, in that very little
is known about how these injuries manifest compared with other causes of injury. Understanding the ...
Implementing interprofessional education and practice: Lessons from a resource-constrained university
(2017)
Interprofessional education is seen as a vehicle to facilitate collaborative practice and, therefore, address
the complex health needs of populations. A number of concerns have, however, been raised with the
implementation ...
The influence of the social environment on youth physical activity
(AFAHPER-SD, 2015)
Research has highlighted the decline of physical activity during the last twenty years and identified adolescence as the age of the greatest decline. Despite the fact that the benefits of physical activity have been proven, ...