background: student-teacher relationship is a salient issue in nursing education and has long-lasting implication in professional development of nursing students. nowadays, this relationship in clinical settings is different from the past due to changing in nursing education paradigm. the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of students and teachers about student-tea...

BACKGROUND Medical education is not exempt from increasing societal expectations of accountability. Competition for financial resources requires medical educators to demonstrate cost-effective educational practice; health care practitioners, the products of medical education programmes, must meet increasing standards of professionalism; the culture of evidence-based medicine demands an evaluati...

AIM This paper reports a study to develop further the existing assessment form and to capture new aspects of assessment for the nursing profession of the future for inclusion in the form. BACKGROUND Since nursing education became part of the higher education system, the assessment of clinical periods of the programme has become more complicated and requirements are more demanding. Changes in ...

OBJECTIVE To identify perceived and unperceived educational needs of residents to organize a seminar series in clinical pharmacology. METHOD All pediatric residents (48) and all attending general pediatric staff (20) were sent structured questionnaires with potential seminar topics. Data from previous pharmacy chart audits and complaints lodged with patient care representatives were analyzed ...

In this article, the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education Association's Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education describes the current status of student outcomes assessment in U.S. dental education. This review is divided into six sections. The first summarizes the literature on assessment of dental students' performance. Section two discusse...

BACKGROUND Midwifery students, clinicians and educators in Australia identified the need for improved feedback for midwifery students whilst they are on clinical placement; in particular formative assessment. The miniCEX or mini-clinical evaluation exercise is one approach to assessment that has been proven valid and reliable in medical education. The aim of this research was to develop, implem...

The field of simulation-based procedural education in medicine is undergoing rapid development, with significant improvements in both graphic and tactile fidelity. As a consequence, the use of simulation for competency assessment and credentialing is evolving rapidly. Establishing the conceptual framework for developing such assessments using simulation is becoming critical to the expansion of ...