Students' perceptions of the instructional
quality of district hospital-based training.

Shehla Jabbar Memon; Jakobus Murray Louw; Martin Bac; Janie Hugo; Waqar-un Nisa Ruf; John Sandars

doi:10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1028

Students' perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospital-based training.

Shehla Jabbar Memon, Jakobus Murray Louw, Martin Bac, Janie Hugo, Waqar-un Nisa Ruf, John Sandars

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: An innovative, three-year training programme, the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP), for mid-level medical healthcare workers was started in 2009 by the Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria.

AIM: To measure the students' perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospitalbased training.

SETTING: Training of students took place at clinical learning centres in rural district hospitals in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces.

METHODS: A survey using the MedEd IQ questionnaire was performed in 2010 and 2011 to measure BCMP second- and third-year students' perceptions of instructional quality of district hospital-based training. The MedEd IQ questionnaire is composed of four subscales: preceptor activities, learning opportunities, learner involvement and the learning environment. Composite scores of instructional quality were used to present results.

RESULTS: The preceptor activities, learning opportunities and the learning environment were considered by second- and third-year BCMP students to be of consistently high instructional quality. In the area of learner involvement, instructional quality increased significantly from second to third year.

CONCLUSION: Overall, instructional quality of district hospital-based training was high for both second- and third-year BCMP students, and the instructional quality of learner involvement being significantly higher in third year students. The MedEd IQ tool was a useful tool for measuring instructional quality and to inform programme quality improvement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1-e6
Journal	African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Early online date	7 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1028
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

clinical associates
evaluation of medical education
mid-level healthcare workers
rural learning centres
rural medical education
student satisfaction.
Teaching/standards
Attitude of Health Personnel
Humans
Male
Education, Medical/methods
Students, Medical/psychology
Female
South Africa
Surveys and Questionnaires
Hospitals, Teaching/standards
Hospitals, District/standards

UN SDGs

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