INTRODUCTION The Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM∙EI), jointly established by Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and Singapore Healthcare Services (SingHealth), is a newly formed health professions education academy designed to cultivate best education practices and create a community of health professions educators. To achieve the aims of AM∙EI, the needs of SingHealth educat...

Theories and models about self-regulated learning are important to educators attempting to understand why some learners succeed and others have difficulty in academic settings. Understanding self-regulation in e-learning environments is critical because there is much agreement in the literature that e-learning requires a higher degree of self-regulation than face-to-face learning. Furthermore, ...

Students completing fieldwork are the future of our profession. We can no longer allow our fieldwork educators to develop skills to supervise, teach, and evaluate students on a trial-and-error basis. By allocating resources to develop continuing education materials to be used in developing these skills, the profession will be acknowledging its long-standing espoused commitment to fieldwork. The...

Collaboration among public health organizations is essential to ensuring the health of the public. Much of the day-to-day work of public health educators is done in groups or teams or in consultation with others. This study examined the extent of health educators' work in teams as a proxy for collaboration. Health educators participated in an average of four teams per individual; three of these...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to examine the factors influencing fieldwork educators' ability and willingness to supervise Level II occupational therapy students in hospital-based settings. Qualitative focus groups were used to explore the perceptions of occupational therapists in four urban hospitals in Nebraska. The study presents the issues facing fieldwork supervisors and their s...

This study is to identify the level of learning strategies among Malaysian future educators, examine the relationship between self-efficacy, learning strategies, and academic achievement, determine whether gender have significant difference in self-efficacy and learning strategies. There are 310 respondents and the sample is undergraduates from the Faculty of Educational Studies, UPM. The instr...

The purpose of this study is to seek an interactive pedagogical model in teaching graphic design in higher education. Malcolm Shepherd Knowles, an American adult educator, adopted the theory of ‘Andragogy’ which focused on self-directed learning theories. This author applied the ‘Andragogical Model’ to upper division design studios and addresses effective instructions and tips through case stud...

Developing information systems curriculum has been a topic of discussion by information system educators and industry practitioners for many years. While the demand for information systems professionals continues to increase, the dynamic nature of the field will continue to challenge information systems educators to be creative and innovative in their approaches to curriculum development. The p...

INTRODUCTION Clinician educators are often asked to perform consultations for colleagues. Invitations to consult and advise others on local problems can help foster great collaborations between centers, and allows for an exchange of ideas between programs. In this article, the authors identify and summarize several key papers to assist emerging clinician educators with the consultation process....

ABSTRACT Ten occupational therapists employed in pediatric and adult rehabilitation settings participated in focus groups to discuss their perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks in working with occupational therapy students. Participants identified professional values, opportunities for continued professional development, recruitment of future employees, and pride in learning experiences ava...