title: Enhancing meaningful learning and self-efficacy through collaboration between dental hygienist and physiotherapist students - a scholarship project.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Within the field of Dental Hygiene (DH) and Physiotherapy (PT), students are taught to use an evidence-based approach. Educators need to consider the nature of evidence-based practice from the perspective of content knowledge and learning strategies. Such effort to seek best available evidence and to apply a systematic and scholarly approach to teaching and learning is called scholarship of teaching and learning.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the application of the scholarship model including an evidence-based approach to enhance meaningful learning and self-efficacy among DH and PT students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on the research on student learning, three central theories were identified (constructivism, meaningful learning and self-efficacy). These were applied in our context to support learner engagement and the application of prior knowledge in a new situation. The DH students performed an oral health examination on the PT students, and the PT students performed an individual health test on the DH students; both groups used motivational interviewing. Documentation of student's learning experience was carried out through seminars and questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The students were overall satisfied with the learning experience. Most appreciated are that it reflected a 'real' professional situation and that it also reinforced important learning from their seminars.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The scholarship model made the teachers aware of the importance of evidence-based teaching. Furthermore, the indicators for meaningful learning and increased self-efficacy were high, and the students became more engaged by practising in a real situation, more aware of other health professions and reflected about tacit knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Division of Periodontology and Dental Hygiene, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden. annsofi.johannsen@ki.se
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Johannsen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bolander-Laksov
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bjurshammar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nordgren
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fridén
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hagströmer
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D001835:Body Weight; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003756:Dental Hygienists / Q000193:education*; D004282:Documentation; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000193:education*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005246:Feedback; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007858:Learning; D008019:Life Style; D009042:Motivation; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D059825:Physical Therapists / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D012648:Self Care; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods