BACKGROUND General practice differs from hospital medicine in the personal nature of the doctor-patient relationship and in the need to address social and psychological issues as well as physical problems. Recent changes in undergraduate medical education have resulted in more teaching and learning taking place in general practitioner (GP) surgeries. AIM To explore patients' experiences of at...

BACKGROUND Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic) (BEH) students at Monash University undertake clinical placements to assist with the transition from student to novice paramedic. Anecdotally, students report a lack of opportunity to practise their clinical skills whilst on placements. The barriers to participation and the theory-practice gap have not been previously documented in Australian ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how teacher educators are preparing pre-service teachers “learn from practice” which the policy on minimum requirements for education aspires and has its focus campus-based teaching with aim narrowing practice-theory divide. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative approach through a phenomenological lens, provided opportunities educators, fina...

During medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. However, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. Medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians' practice and ethical decisions; thus,...