| Description |
xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Section 1. Introduction -- 1. Educating beginning practitioners in the health professions / Joy Higgs and Helen Edwards -- 2. Rethinking the beginning practitioner: introducing the 'Interactional Professional' / Joy Higgs and Adrienne Hunt -- Section 2. The context of health science education -- 3. The context of health science education today / Christine Ewan -- 4. The changing health care context: globalization and social ecology / Charles Higgs and Deane Neubauer and Joy Higgs -- 5. Community and workplace expectations of health science graduates / Adrienne Hunt and Barbara Adamson and Lynne Harris -- 6. Professional socialization / Rosemary Cant and Joy Higgs -- 7. Providing clinical education: the relationship between health and education / Kerry Ferguson and Helen Edwards -- |
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Section 3. Curriculum issues and strategies -- 8. Curriculum models for educating beginning practitioners / Rod Wellard and Helen Edwards -- 9. Emerging types of graduates: pathways to practice / Ann Sefton and Elizabeth Gass and Kim Forrester -- 10. Curriculum management in a changing world: the new imperative / Fran Everingham and Grahame Feletti -- 11. Integrating clinical and academic aspects of curricula / Rick Ladyshewsky and Helen Edwards -- 12. Curriculum accreditation / Colleen Liston -- 13. Designing and implementing a learning program: a feminist and critical perspective / Denise Fassett and Helen Edwards -- 14. Teaching and research synergy / Leon Piterman -- 15. Teaching research in health science curricula / Sue Armitage -- Section 4. Student issues -- 16. Profiling health science students / Genevieve Dwyer and Joy Higgs -- 17. The implications of student learning research for health science education / Dawn Best, Janelle Cust and Michael Prosser -- 18. Issues in intercultural and international learning in health science curricula / Colleen Mullavey-O'Byrne --19. The first-year experience / Anne Pitkethly and Michael Prosser -- |
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Section 5. Teaching and learning -- 20. Educating health science students for lifelong learning / Philip Candy and Linda Worrall-Carter -- 21. Learning generic skills / Adrienne Hunt and Joy Higgs -- 22. Learning for practice: promoting learning in clinical and community settings / David Boud and Helen Edwards -- 23. Facilitating the development of knowledge / Angie Titchen and Joy Higgs -- 24. Learning practical skills / Heather Bond and Diana Spurritt -- 25. Helping students learn clinical reasoning skills / Joy Higgs, Mark Jones and Kathryn Refshauge -- 26. Working together: students learning collaboratively / Ruth Cohen and Jane Sampson -- 27. Learning through technology / Bill McGuiness and Jennifer Hardy -- Section 6. Student assessment -- 28. Assessment and learning / David Boud and Joy Higgs -- 29. Challenges of assessment / Heather Bond and Diana Spurritt -- 30. Methods of student assessment in health sciences curricula / Grahame Feletti -- |
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Section 7. Educating the educators -- 31. Becoming educators for the current higher education context / Angela Brew -- 32. Developing as health professional educators / Helen Edwards, Joy Higgs and Fran Everingham -- 33. Teacher education programs for health science educators / Fran Everingham and Raja Bandaranayake -- 34. Becoming a clinical educator / Miranda Rose, Dawn Best and Lindy McAllister -- 35. Research into health professional education / Jill Borthwick -- Section 8. Future directions -- 36. Challenges, cooperation and choice: creating the future of health professional education / Helen Edwards and Joy Higgs |
| Summary |
"This book will provide you with an overview of contemporary educational theory and puts this into a practical health care context, giving you all the background information that you need. It covers a whole range of practical topics including: planning,how to facilitate knowledge, learning practical and clinical reasoning skills together with aspects of research and assessment in learning. It gives guidelines so that you can design your own learning programmes and empower your students to become a health science educators. It has 36 individually crafted chapters by international experts who have been chosen for their depth of knowledge, expertise and for their practical ability to apply material directly to educating the beginning health professional. It is edited by two highly respected health science educators and researchers who have provided you with all their knowledge and experience of the field. The dramatic changes in the health sciences and education make this book highly contemporary and desirable for health science educators and researchers as well as their students." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical education -- Social aspects.
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Medical education.
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Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- Study and teaching (Continuing education)
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Medical personnel -- Study and teaching.
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Physicians (General practice) -- Education.
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Education.
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Health Occupations.
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Health Personnel.
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Medical Staff.
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Health Occupations -- education.
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| Author |
Edwards, Helen.
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Higgs, Joy.
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| LC no. |
99011381 |
| ISBN |
0750637730 |
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