Interprofessional collaboration is an important aspect of delivering healthcare. However, helping students learn to work with other health professions continues to pose challenges. Students’ interprofessional relationships are an important aspect of learning to work with other professions. The complexity of educators’ interprofessional relationships is less easily recognised. Existing relations...

Training surgical residents to become the next generation of surgeons involves very significant challenges not faced by educators of a generation ago. Never before have educators had to face the unique challenges involved in surgical education that are now becoming more clearly defined. This discussion will focus on inguinal hernia repair as an index operation to illustrate the challenge faced ...

An online survey was conducted with health educators in Colorado to ascertain their needs and ability to access relevant stock art photographs for their print and electronic educational media. Health educators were dissatisfied with the cultural and demographic diversity of photographs available from their own sources or from commercial stock art websites. There was a perceived need for more ph...

CONTEXT Despite a demand for educational expertise in medical universities, little is known of the roles of medical educators and the sustainability of academic careers in medical education. We examined the experiences and career paths of medical educators from diverse professional backgrounds seeking to establish, maintain and strengthen their careers in medical schools. METHODS Semi-structu...

BACKGROUND Medical education has grown beyond the boundaries of the classroom, and social media is seen as the bridge between informal and formal learning as it keeps students highly engaged with educational content outside the classroom. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of medical educators and medical students regarding the use of social media for educationa...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Career motivation in university educators through efficient ways and appropriate with the educational system, is considered one of the important factors affecting education of students and their competence. This study aimed to determine the relationship between career motivation and spiritual leadership among a university of medical sciences in the west, Iran. METHODS This...

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This study was undertaken to study the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators, to compare the level of job satisfaction of female and male teacher educators as well as to compare the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators in relation to private teachers’ training institutions of University of Gour Banga and University of Kalyani. The data was collected randomly by using job sati...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated weather educational outcomes of nurse education meet the requirements of nursing practice by exploring the correspondence between nurse educators' and nurse managers' assessments of novice nurses' professional competence. The purpose was to find competence areas contributing to the acknowledged practice-theory gap. DESIGN A cross-sectional, comparative design us...