scholarly journals Balancing Costs and Patients' Health: Dental Students’ Perception of Economics in Dentistry

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Franzén
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
Keywords Cost

One aim of higher education is to develop professional identities in students to equip them for future working life. Health professional students will work under financial pressures in a market-based environment, which can lead to conflicts with professional ethical values. This study explores how Swedish dental students perceive economic aspects of dentistry. The article is based on a study of undergraduate research projects. In the analysis of the projects, two themes were identified: (1) cost-effective organizing of dentistry and (2) costs and benefits of interventions. The students displayed socially responsible values by emphasizing the need for dentists to utilize resources effectively, which implies that professional education can support the development of the perception that economic values can be compatible with professional ethical values. Keywords: cost-effectiveness, ethics, healthcare, higher education, social responsibility  

scholarly journals A multi-method exploratory study of health professional students’ experiences with compliance behaviours

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrem Violato ◽  
Sharla King ◽  
Okan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
True Frequency

Abstract Background Research in healthcare, including students as participants, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental and survey literature, however, currently lacking is a direct measure of the frequency at which health professional students have negative experiences with conformity and obedience integrated with psychological factors, the outcomes of negative compliance, and students’ perceptions. Methods To develop empirical knowledge about the frequency of negative compliance and student perceptions during health professional education a multi-methods survey approach was used. The survey was administered to health professional students across ten disciplines at four institutions. Results The results indicated students regularly experience obedience and conformity and are influenced by impression management and displacement of responsibility. Moral distress was identified as a consistent negative outcome. Student self-reported experiences aligned with the empirical findings. Conclusions The findings of the present study demonstrate the pervasiveness of experiences with negative compliance during health professional’s education along with some attendant psychological factors. The findings have educational and practical implications, as well as pointing to the need for further integration of social and cognitive psychology in explaining compliance in healthcare. The results are likely generalizable to a population level however replication is encouraged to better understand the true frequency of negative compliance at a health professional population level.

scholarly journals A Multi-Method Exploratory Study of Health Professional Students’ Experiences with Compliance Behaviours

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrem Violato ◽  
Sharla King ◽  
Okan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
True Frequency

Abstract Background: Research in healthcare, including students as participants, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental and survey literature, however, currently lacking is a direct measure of the frequency at which health professional students have negative experiences with conformity and obedience integrated with psychological factors, the outcomes of negative compliance, and students’ perceptions. Methods: To develop empirical knowledge about the frequency of negative compliance and student perceptions during health professional education a multi-methods survey approach was used. The survey was administered to health professional students across ten disciplines at four institutions. Results: The results indicated students regularly experience obedience and conformity and are influenced by impression management and displacement of responsibility. Moral distress was identified as a consistent negative outcome. Student self-reported experiences aligned with the empirical findings. Conclusions: The findings of the present study demonstrate the pervasiveness of experiences with negative compliance during health professional’s education along with some attendant psychological factors. The findings have educational and practical implications, as well as pointing to the need for further integration of social and cognitive psychology in explaining compliance in healthcare. The results are likely generalizable to a population level however replication is encouraged to better understand the true frequency of negative compliance at a health professional population level.

scholarly journals A Multi-Method Exploratory Study of Health Professional Students’ Experiences with Compliance Behaviours

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrem Violato ◽  
Sharla King ◽  
Okan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
True Frequency

Abstract Background: Research in healthcare, including students as participants, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental and survey literature, however, currently lacking is a direct measure of the frequency at which health professional students have negative experiences with conformity and obedience integrated with psychological factors, the outcomes of negative compliance, and students’ perceptions. Methods: To develop empirical knowledge about the frequency of negative compliance and student perceptions during health professional education a multi-methods survey approach was used. The survey was administered to health professional students across ten disciplines at four institutions. Results: The results indicated students regularly experience obedience and conformity and are influenced by impression management and displacement of responsibility. Moral distress was identified as a consistent negative outcome. Student self-reported experiences aligned with the empirical findings. Conclusions: The findings of the present study demonstrate the pervasiveness of experiences with negative compliance during health professional’s education along with some attendant psychological factors. The findings have educational and practical implications, as well as pointing to the need for further integration of social and cognitive psychology in explaining compliance in healthcare. The results are likely generalizable to a population level however replication is encouraged to better understand the true frequency of negative compliance at a health professional population level.

Integrating Mobile Technologies in Multicultural Multilingual Multimedia Projects

2015 ◽  
pp. 254-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melda N. Yildiz ◽  
Kristine Scharaldi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Tablet Pcs ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Gps Devices

This chapter explores the role of mobile technologies, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and cell phones and tablet PC technologies, in higher education and professional development; offers creative strategies and possibilities for integrating GPS and mobile technologies into the curriculum with limited resources; outlines participants' projects and digital stories; and demonstrates examples that integrates Maps, Mathematics, and Media Education using cell phones, tablet PCs, and GPS devices in a gallery walk. The study explores a wide range of meanings participants associated with experiential project-based learning activities; the impact of mobile technologies in developing multicultural and multilingual curriculum that promotes inclusive and differentiated instruction; the ways in which participants integrated math, maps, and media into their learning; and how they gained alternative points of view on global education and renewed interest and commitment to community service and socially responsible teaching. This chapter will benefit teacher candidates and teacher educators who seek innovative and cost-effective strategies and tools in higher education.

scholarly journals Patients’ Messages as Educators in an Interprofessional Health Education Program

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Doucet ◽  
Heidi Lauckner ◽  
Sandy Wells
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Health Professional Education ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
People First

Background: Patients have traditionally played a passive role in health professional education. Health Mentors Programs are new, innovative interprofessional education initiatives that involve "health mentors" (volunteer community patient educators), who share their experiences navigating the healthcare system with an interprofessional team of four health professional students. The purpose of this research was to explore what motivated the patient educators to participate in the Dalhousie Health Mentors Program and what messages they wanted to instill in health professional students.Methods: Data were collected through seven semi-structured focus groups (N = 29) and one individual interview (N = 1), which were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Qualitative inductive thematic analysis was used to identify key themes.Findings: Our study demonstrated that patients want to play an active role in educating health professional students with the hope of improving the healthcare system. The mentors wanted to convey to the students the importance of interprofessional collaboration, understanding patients are people first, listening to patients, and understanding the visible and invisible impacts of living with chronic conditions.Conclusions: If we expect our students to become competent in providing interprofessional, patient-centred care, it is important that we provide opportunities for patients to be actively involved in health professional education, as they have important messages that cannot be taught from a textbook.

scholarly journals Designing an electronic medical case simulator for health professional education

2011 ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
The University

This paper describes an implementation of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) which has been adapted for the purposes of teaching health professional students, including medical and nursing students. Off-the-shelf EMR software, while suited for physicians in practice settings does not completely satisfy the needs of these students and educators. There are many unique requirements of a teaching EMR compared to one used in a production environment. This paper describes the specific architecture and unique features of an EMR that was employed in the University of British Columbia Medical School teaching program in December, 2007 with 200 participating medical students distributed across three physical sites in the Province of British Columbia.

scholarly journals A self-medicating scale and questionnaire based drug use survey and the effect of educational intervention among healthcare professional students

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1336
Author(s):  
Radhika M. S. ◽  
Mayur S. S. ◽  
Kavleen Kaur Bindra ◽  
Sushmita G. Hittalmani
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
The Impact

Background: Due to an array of reasons like easy accessibility and awareness about the available drugs, self-medication has steeply increased the already existent drug misuse. As the health professional students are exposed to all the information of drugs, it would be worthwhile to survey if this knowledge is misused to self-medicate. The present study was aimed at determining the impact of educational intervention on the prevalent attitudes and pattern of self-medication among medical, dental and nursing students as they constitute a vulnerable group for such practices.Methods: A total of 360 health professional students participated in the study. A validated questionnaire and self-medication scale (SMS) were used for the survey, before and after the educational workshop.Results: Of the 360 students 70% were females. 93.89% reported practicing self-medication, which reduced to 78.63% after the educational workshops. Average number of self-medication encounters before the workshop was 4.03±0.30. Analgesics were most commonly used. The modified SMS scores were significantly reduced (p<0.0001) after interventional workshops indicating that the enhanced knowledge, increased the reluctance to self-medicate and make students think twice before self-medicating so as to reduce such harmful, casual drug use habits.  Educational workshops statistically (p<0.0001) enhanced the participants knowledge of ADRs, OTC drugs, expiry date, package inserts etc. 77.78% nursing students were habituated to at least one drug which was significantly higher (χ2=20.45, p<0.0001) than that of medical and dental students taken together.Conclusions: Educational intervention reduces the evil of self-medication and enhances safe drug use habits among healthcare professional students.

scholarly journals A Multi-Method Exploratory Study of Health Professional Students’ Experiences with Compliance Behaviours

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrem Violato ◽  
Sharla King ◽  
Okan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
True Frequency

Abstract Research in healthcare, including with students, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental work however, the majority of literature on negative compliance is anecdotal and theoretical. Currently lacking is a direct measure of the frequency at which health professional students have negative experiences with conformity and obedience integrated with psychological factors, the outcomes of negative compliance, and students’ perceptions. To develop empirical knowledge about the frequency of negative compliance and student perceptions during health professional education a multi-methods survey approach was used. The survey was administered to health professional students across ten disciplines at four institutions. The results indicated students regularly experience obedience and conformity and are influenced by impression management and displacement of responsibility. Moral distress was identified as a consistent negative outcome. Student self-reported experiences aligned with the empirical findings. The findings of the present study demonstrate the pervasiveness of experiences with negative compliance during health professional’s education. The findings have educational and practical implications, as well as pointing to the need for further integration of social and cognitive psychology in explaining compliance in healthcare. The results are likely generalizable to a population level however replication is encouraged to better understand the true frequency of negative compliance at a population level.

scholarly journals Awareness and Use of Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco among Students of Egas Moniz—Cooperative of Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ana Sofia Pintado ◽  
Duarte Sousa-Tavares ◽  
Patrícia Cavaco-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Health Professional Students

Heated tobacco products (HTP) use a device that heats tobacco to generate an aerosol containing nicotine instead of burning it as it happens with combustion tobacco. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of heat-not-burn tobacco use among students of a Healthcare University Institution—Egas Moniz—and identify the factors that influence this use. A questionnaire adapted from the WHO Global Health Professional Students Survey was applied between May and July 2019 in the study population. Subsequently, an exploratory analysis of the data was carried out and a logistic regression was applied in order to determine the factors that influence students to consume heated tobacco.

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