ERIC Number: EJ1438833
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1470-3297
EISSN: EISSN-1470-3300
Learning from Peers' Diverse Knowledge and Experience. Findings from Internationalising a Course for Medical Students
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, v61 n5 p848-861 2024
This study reports on the outcomes of internationalising a course on Nutrition for medical students. Two interventions towards internationalised learning experience included: 1) introducing new readings and activities that invited students to consider geographical and cultural factors of dietary recommendations and 2) asking students to suggest an intervention for a hypothetical patient with a nutritional problem through discussing the assigned case in purposefully mixed groups. Changes were made both in the group that predominantly consisted of home students (N = 18) and the group of international students (N = 21). The interventions encouraged an increase in student awareness of the cultural and geographical contexts of nutrition. Students learnt through sharing diverse knowledge and experience and recognised peer learning experience as useful and enjoyable. The innovation achieved more impact in the group of international students than in the group of home students, in which diversity and previous experience from learning in multicultural groups was low.
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Student Experience, Peer Influence, Global Approach, Curriculum Development, Courses, Medical Students, Nutrition, Medical Education, Learning Activities, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages, English, Bilingual Education Programs, Elective Courses
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Slovakia
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