PURPOSE The optimal setting for interprofessional education (IPE) for prelicensure health care trainees is unclear, especially in a field as complex and emotionally challenging as oncology. In this article, the authors describe the initiation of the Cross Cancer Institute Multidisciplinary Summer Studentship in Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology, a 6-week, multidisciplinary team-based c...

Purpose Human movement is essential for health and well-being. Understanding human pivotal in physiotherapy, but also an important element of physiotherapy education. This review identified, critically appraised, synthesized the available evidence on learning teaching as perceived by students, therapists, instructors.Methods The databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, PsycINFO, MEDIC FINNA, were searc...

background tendon injuries are one of the most common injuries of the hand and challenging problems in trauma surgery. they usually require surgical repair and unlike the single tendon injuries, flexor tendon injuries have higher morbidities when accompanied with nerve injuries. in the present study, i aimed to report the clinical experiences and outcomes about tendon injuries. methods a total ...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

Thank you for this opportunity to share perspectives from our work within the Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project, PREP, an Erasmus+ funded project KA2 strategic partnership program. Researchers, educators, students, clinicians institutions of higher education, health services humanitarian organisations, have worked together in define competencies that physiotherapists need working wit...

Background: Today, psychological morbidities such as depression, anxiety and stress are most common psychiatrichealth issues worldwide. Stress in medical education especially among the undergraduate students has become aglobal phenomenon nowadays. According to WHO, depression is mental disorder, characterisedby sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings guilt low self-worth, energy poor co...

Due to feedback from students, student abuse during fieldwork, was brought to the attention of the researchers. The study aimed to determine whether a need for a non-abusive intervention programme (NIP) existed amongst the School of Health Care Science students at the University of Pretoria. All students enrolled at the School of Health Care Sciences completed a questionnaire. An overwhelming r...

Ethiopia recently introduced the Doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT) degree at Addis Ababa University as a mechanism to increase the work force capacity of primary care providers in the health sector. The DPT program was supported by an international academic partnership and was designed to empower physiotherapists as leaders to move the profession forward. The curriculum was framed by core pedagogic...

The PEDro scale was developed to rate the methodological quality trials on PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database and includes 10 criteria. Ratings of trials in OTseeker, however, are presented separately with respect to items relevant to a trial’s internal validity (8 items) and items relevant to a trial’s statistical reporting (2 items). This is called the PEDro scale (partitioned). A cop...