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Diffracting Reflection: A Move beyond Reflective Practice
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Mitchell, Veronica Ann – Education as Change, 2017
Reflective practice has become a core component in higher education studies. In the health sciences, reflective tasks are required throughout the undergraduate programmes, yet many students struggle to find value in these tasks for their present and future professional practice. Benefits that can be derived from the process are undermined by this…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Foreign Countries
Understanding the Early Transition Needs of Diverse Commencing University Students in a Health Faculty: Informing Effective Intervention Practices
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Wilson, Keithia L.; Murphy, Karen A.; Pearson, Andrew G.; Wallace, Barbara M.; Reher, Vanessa G. S.; Buys, Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The engagement and retention of commencing students is a longstanding issue in higher education, particularly with the implementation of the widening student participation agenda. The early weeks of the first semester are especially critical to student engagement and early attrition. This study investigated the perceived early transition needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Holding Power, Learner Engagement, College Students
An Evaluation of Post-Registration Students' Experience of Higher Education.
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Hargreaves, Janet – Nurse Education Today, 1994
A cohort of nurses and midwives completed a Hoste Grid (semantic differential scale) before and after a course on management of care delivery. Precourse positive expectations were shaken but not destroyed by the experience. Ways to address student fears and improve the evaluation process were identified. (SK)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Expectation, Higher Education, Nurses
Stability and Change of Interest in Obstetrics-Gynecology among Medical Students: Eighteen Years of Longitudinal Data.
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Forouzan, Iraj; Hojat, Mohammadreza – Academic Medicine, 1993
A study investigated, first, the percentage of medical students maintaining interest in obstetrics/gynecology during medical school compared to those maintaining interest in other specialties and, second, changes of interest from obstetrics/gynecology to other specialties and other specialties to obstetrics/gynecology. Results indicate instability…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Gynecology, Higher Education
Rotating Interns' Images of Practitioners of Five Medical Specialties.
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Sangal, Rahul – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
A study of rotating interns' images of medical practitioners focuses on what images the interns have of obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians, internists, psychiatrists, and surgeons, and seeks to determine whether these images differ according to choice of specialty for postgraduate work. (JMD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Enrollment Influences, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students
Assessing Medical Students' Perceptions of Mistreatment in Their Second and Third Years.
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Richardson, David A.; Becker, Marilyn; Frank, Robert R.; Sokol, Robert J. – Academic Medicine, 1997
Survey of Wayne State University (Michigan) 542 medical students found significantly more third-year than second-year students reporting personal experience of mistreatment or discrimination. Students specializing in family medicine reported the lowest rates of mistreatment, those in obstetrics/gynecology and surgery the highest. Perception also…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Family Practice (Medicine), Gynecology, Higher Education
Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966-75.
Gifford, James F., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1978
In view of increased public demand since 1965 for medical curriculum re-evaluation, the Duke University School of Medicine offered the first new model of medical education responsive to social pressures for change. The new Duke curriculum included presentation by each basic science department of the core of principles and information considered…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Anatomy, Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry