A questionnaire survey of students' perceptions of nurse tutor teaching in a clinical skills learning programme.
Changes in medical education and in the environments in which students learn have brought about new ways of learning in undergraduate medical curricula. Amongst these have been the establishment of courses in clinical skills learning to address concerns of deficient skills amongst newly qualified doctors. Curriculum reform at Liverpool, UK, included extensive and early learning of clinical skills. Nurse tutors provide full-time teaching support in a single Clinical Skills Resource Centre. They work alongside medically qualified tutors in delivering a clinical skills learning programme. This study aimed to explore students' opinion of nurses teaching clinical skills and to compare that to their opinion of teaching by medically qualified clinicians. A questionnaire survey was used to gain the views of 206 first-year medical students. Overall, students were strongly supportive in their opinion of nurse tutors. Some small statistically significant differences are probably of little or no educational significance. This role for nurses stresses the importance of interprofessional teachers in undergraduate healthcare education.
Bradley
Paul
P
Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK. paul.bradley@pms.ac.uk
Bond
Victoria
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Bradley
Pamela
P
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010080:Oxazoles; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D053284:Polyunsaturated Alkamides; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006113:United Kingdom
D010080:Oxazoles; D053284:Polyunsaturated Alkamides; C046081:curromycin A