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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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...

    "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 ...
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    "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 ...
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    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 ...
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    ‘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 ...
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    "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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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