ABSTRACT Educational research and development efforts are most often directed at the improvement of teaching while neglecting students’ learning styles. Besides being marginally effective, an exclusive focus on improving teaching methods may lead to reinforcement of inappropriate and nontransferable learning strategies. As such, this study is being undertaken to determine if differences in pers...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of smoking, second-hand smoke exposure, and attitudes toward tobacco control and cessation training among university students in China. METHODS We administered the Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) to students from 50 universities offering medical/ health professional (MHP) programs and received 11,954 responses. Non-MHP students, MHP studen...

Institutions are increasingly considering interprofessional education (IPE) as a means to improve health care and reduce medical errors in the United States. Effective implementation of IPE within health professions education requires a strategic institutional approach to ensure longevity and sustainability. In 2007, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) established Creating Collabora...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to understand how Student-Faculty Relationships (S-FR) has been conceptualized, defined, or operationalized in Health Professions Education (HPED). Methods: In a scoping review, the authors searched CINAHL for literature on S-FR HPEd from year 2002-2022. Twentynine (29) articles met inclusion criteria. Explicit content defining terminologies were analyzed...

We conducted the GHPSS (Global Health Professions Student Survey) to obtain information regarding health profession students' smoking habits and perceptions, exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) as well as level of knowledge and training on tobacco use and smoking cessation counseling. GHPSS is a survey for third-year students in the following fields: health visitors, dentistry, medicine, nursing...

We have shown that healthcare professional students attitudes toward interprofessional collaboration improve in association with their work together on interdisciplinary teams in single courses (Van Winkle et al., 2012, 2013). Anecdotally, however, a few students complained that at least one team member from another healthcare professions program did not contribute their share to the success of...