Purpose: The aim of the current investigation was to compare and contrast societal perceptions and attitudes towards men in nursing as reported by male and female nursing and non-nursing university students. Methods: A comparative study design was employed to investigate societal attitudes and perceptions towards male nurses enrolled in school of nursing in a mid-sized university in Ontario, Ca...

The purpose of this study was to compare dental students' and faculty members' perceptions of classroom incivility and to determine how many students willingly engage in uncivil behavior in the classroom. A web-based survey research design was used to obtain information regarding uncivil classroom behaviors from dental students and full- and part-time dental faculty members at a midwestern U.S....

BACKGROUND Healthcare is generally provided by various health professionals acting together. Unfortunately, poor communication and collaboration within such healthcare teams often prevent its members from actively engaging in collaborative decision-making. Interprofessional education (IPE) which prepares health professionals for their collaborative role in the healthcare system may partially ad...

Connie Strittmatter is Head Librarian, Access Services & Collection Maintenance in Boston College University Libraries, e-mail: [email protected]; Virginia K. Bratton is Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Montana State University, e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Connie Strittmatter and Virginia K. Bratton, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses...

PURPOSE To assess students' perceptions of the impact of PowerPoint (PPT) presentations in lectures in comparison to the traditional chalk and talk method and lectures using transparencies and overhead projector (TOHP). The study analyzes the preferences for teaching aids of medical students versus dental students. METHODS Second year medical and dental undergraduates were asked to fill in a ...

BACKGROUND The shortage in Latin-American Primary Care (PC) workforce may be due to negative perceptions about it. These perceptions might be probably influenced by particular features of health systems and academic environments, thus varying between countries. METHODS Observational, analytic and cross-sectional multicountry study that evaluated 9,561 first and fifth-year medical students fro...

During the last decades, traditional learning environments have been criticised for not developing the prerequisites for professional expertise (H. Mandl, H. Gruber & A. Renkl, Interactive minds: Life-span perspectives on the social foundation of cognition, pp. 394–412, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996; P. Tynjälä, International Journal of Educational Research, 31, 357–442, 1999)...

Objectives (1) To investigate pharmacy students’ perceptions of 10 occupations within the medical and allied professions: community pharmacists, dentists, dietitians, general medical practitioners (GPs), hospital pharmacists, medical specialists, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and social workers. (2) To explore students’ perceptions of community and hospital pharmacists at di...