Supervisors at Higher Education Institutions are challenged to shorten throughput of Master's degree students in nursing as researchers are needed to improve the art and science of the nursing profession. Globally the completion time for a postgraduate degree in the health sciences varies between 4.7 and 5.5 years. The purpose of the study was to describe strategies that were implemented to sho...

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OBJECTIVE A tracking study of the undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents who participated in the Northwestern Ontario Medical Programme (NOMP) during its first 25 years (1972-1997) was conducted to search for factors related to physician recruitment to Northwestern Ontario. METHODS Annual editions of the Canadian Medical Directory were used to determine how many participant...

Research and supervision have become a vital process in the successful of postgraduate studies. Building an academic career path after Higher National Degree or Bachelor Degree needs intensive training and preparation. This culminates in writing of thesis or dissertation. In this process, the supervisor is designated to facilitate the student’s research development based on good resources offer...

Many postgraduate students of a non-English-speaking background (NESB) studying at Western universities experience difficulties – more so than their undergraduate counterparts. Reading has been cited as one of the most neglected problems facing postgraduate international students. This paper is part of a larger investigation, exploring the reading traditions and practices which influence the in...

Richard Wakeford, John Foulkes, Chris McManus, Wesley Southgate medical education (prospective students), to its providers (medical schools and their curriculum designers, postgraduate training schemes), and to its customers (medical care providers) if comparative output data on medical schools and postgraduate training were available. Without a national medical qualifying examination this is p...

The aim of our study was to assess the attitudes of postgraduate orthodontic students in India towards patient-centered care. Two hundred and two students from eighteen dental schools across India completed the modified Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS), a self-administered eighteen-item questionnaire that evaluates the practice orientation of the students in terms of doctor versus ...

BACKGROUND The script concordance test (SCT) is a validated method of examining students' clinical reasoning. Medical students' professional skills are assessed during their postgraduate years as they study for a specialist qualification in general practice. However, no specific provision is made for assessing their clinical reasoning during their postgraduate study. OBJECTIVE The aim was to ...