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Direct linkRenee Nicole Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was the trend of students completing health sciences stackable credentials not pursuing the related health sciences associate degree after completing the stackable credential, despite the availability of the streamlined pathway. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study utilizing semi-structured…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Health Sciences, School Holding Power, Credentials
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Download full textBurr, Justin Vernon – HAPS Educator, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions were forced to pivot toward online education. With the switch to online learning, e-proctoring became a popular choice to continue proctored exam assessments. Many concerns arose from this technology, including privacy, psychological, and performance concerns. With the resumption of in-person…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, College Students, Student Attitudes, Supervision
Luo, Owen Dan; Lin, Sabrina H.; Grover, Sanya; Sritharan, Praveen; Hansen, Stine – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Undergraduate research is a "high-impact" educational practice that enriches student learning and facilitates student career advancement. This sequential explanatory mixed methods study, composed of a quantitative online questionnaire followed by qualitative focus group interviews, sought to explore undergraduate student attitudes on…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Research
Kei Long Cheung; Michael Thomas; Billy Wong; Laura Hills; Hannah Froome; Nicholas Worsfold; Daniel P. Bailey – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Attention paid to awarding gaps in higher education linked to ethnicity tends to focus on outcomes at the final award stage. Our project sought to scrutinise awarding gaps at module level where these gaps may emerge. Our aim was twofold: to identify the most important barriers to student success and determine strategies to reduce awarding gaps at…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Barriers, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Anneka Anderson; Elana Curtis; Melaney Tkatch; Belinda Loring; Sue Reddy; Kanewa Stokes; Wills Nepia; Tracey Winter; Papaarangi Reid – Discover Education, 2024
Hikitia te Ora (Certificate in Health Sciences) is a 1 year Indigenous bridging foundation programme at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The programme aims to increase Maori and Pacific health workforce representation. This qualitative study applied a Kaupapa Maori positioning to elucidate the strengths, challenges, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Secondary School Students
DeMunter, Jodi; Rdesinski, Rebecca; Vintro, Andrea; Carney, Patricia A. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
This study examines food insecurity in a novel population: health professions students. Their academic success has a unique impact on our nation's future health care system. We administered a 39-question survey, including open-ended questions that were coded for qualitative analyses, to 2,853 students to delineate the scope of this problem and…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Eating Habits, Purchasing
Dimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
Portia Kalun; Michael Wong; Heather Poole; Ayesha Khan – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This pilot study explored undergraduate students' experiences with goal setting and time management. We embedded a series of mandatory planning and reflection assignments into two undergraduate courses. Assignments were unique to each course, but emphasized goal setting, planning and time management, and reflection. Qualitative analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Time Management, Program Implementation, Undergraduate Students
Govender, Nalini; Reddy, Poovendhree; Bhagwan, Raisuyah – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in South African universities and institutes of higher learning experiencing an unprecedented shift to online learning in 2020, coupled by limited access to campus, in order to prevent community transmission. However, the potential impact of the outbreak on the academic and psychosocial wellbeing of students warrants…
Descriptors: Barriers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning
Pitts-Noggle, Stephanie; Rafferty, Ryan – College & Research Libraries, 2017
This article examines the behaviors and preferences of medical and nursing students in relation to their required textbooks and library reserves. The findings are based on an April 2015 survey at the University of Illinois-Chicago satellite Library of the Health Sciences in Urbana, where the library provides access to textbooks through traditional…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Library Materials, College Libraries, Medical Students
Scriver, Stacey; Kennedy, Kieran M. – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
Sexual violence is a serious and prevalent violation that is experienced by as many as one in three people worldwide. Professionals working in areas of health, social work, law, policy-development and other fields engage with survivors of sexual violence. Their knowledge of this issue is an important determinant in how they react towards survivors…
Descriptors: Barriers, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods
Hendry, Gordon James – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
Peer-physical examination is a widely adopted and an integral component of the undergraduate curriculum for many health science programs. Unwillingness or perceived inability to participate in peer-physical examination classes may have a negative impact upon students' abilities to competently conduct physical examinations of patients in…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Peer Relationship, Physical Examinations, Allied Health Personnel
Dune, Tinashe; Bidewell, John; Firdaus, Rubab; Kirwan, Morwenna – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Bringing popular culture to tertiary education can potentially increase student engagement with learning tasks and content, especially when the learning task has students producing the content. Using a single-group intervention plus post-test design, this study implemented and evaluated a purposely developed learning and teaching innovation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Allied Health Occupations Education
