Students’ perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospital-based training
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Students’ perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospital-based training | |
| Creator | Memon, Shehla Jabbar Louw, Jakobus Murray Bac, Martin Hugo, Jannie Rauf, Waqar-un Nisa Sandars, John Edward | |
| Description | Background: An innovative, three-year training programme, the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP), for mid-level medical healthcare workers was started in 2009 by the Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria.Aim: To measure the students’ perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospitalbased training. Setting: Training of students took place at clinical learning centres in rural district hospitals in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces.Methods: A survey using the MedEd IQ questionnaire was performed in 2010 and 2011 to measure BCMP second- and third-year students’ perceptions of instructional quality of district hospital-based training. The MedEd IQ questionnaire is composed of four subscales: preceptor activities, learning opportunities, learner involvement and the learning environment. Composite scores of instructional quality were used to present results.Results: The preceptor activities, learning opportunities and the learning environment were considered by second- and third-year BCMP students to be of consistently high instructional quality. In the area of learner involvement, instructional quality increased significantly from second to third year.Conclusion: Overall, instructional quality of district hospital-based training was high for both second- and third-year BCMP students, and the instructional quality of learner involvement being significantly higher in third year students. The MedEd IQ tool was a useful tool for measuring instructional quality and to inform programme quality improvement.Keywords: clinical associates, evaluation of medical education, mid-level healthcare workers, rural learning centres, rural medical education, student satisfaction. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-07-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1028 | |
| Source | African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 8, No 1 (2016); 6 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928 | |
| Language | eng | |
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