Education is changing, following changes in society. The focus is shifting from teaching towards learning. And Informatics, more particularly Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is integral part of that learning. How to design effective learning situations? And how to design in such a way that the educational process of change is successful? Results are presented from an action rese...

INTRODUCTION Learning in clinical practice is challenging regarding organizational and pedagogical issues. Clinical education wards are one way to meet these challenges by focusing on both patient care and student learning. However, more knowledge is needed about how students' learning can be enhanced and about patients' and supervisors' roles in these settings. METHODS The aim was to explore...

BACKGROUND Safe drug prescribing and administration are essential elements within undergraduate healthcare curricula, but medication errors, especially in paediatric practice, continue to compromise patient safety. In this area of clinical care, collective responsibility, team working and communication between health professionals have been identified as key elements in safe clinical practice. ...

The process of collective education in an organization that has the capacity to impact an organization’s operations, performance and outcomes is called organizational learning. In health care organizations, patient care is provided through one or more visible and invisible teams. These teams are composed of experts and novices from diverse backgrounds working together to provide coordinated car...

OBJECTIVES To explore final-year physiotherapy students' perceptions and experiences of interprofessional learning in the university and placement setting. STUDY DESIGN Focus group and mixed qualitative and quantitative questionnaire. SETTING Coventry University. PARTICIPANTS Third-year physiotherapy students at Coventry University. METHODS The final-year physiotherapy cohort was invite...

Complex problem solving is challenging and a high-level cognitive process for individuals. When analyzing complex problem solving in teams, an additional, new dimension has to be considered, as teamwork processes increase the requirements already put on individual team members. After introducing an idealized teamwork process model, that complex problem solving teams pass through, and integratin...