Clinical Education in the Health Professions: An Educator's Guide

by Delany, Clare

• ISBN13: 9780729539005
• ISBN10: 0729539008
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

Despite claims that clinical education lies at the heart of health care education, little empirical research has explored what constitutes effectiveness in clinical teaching and learning. This book draws on the research, ideas and expertise of researchers who have observed and researched different aspects of clinical education. Their research has spanned clinical education topics including professional identity and socialisation, assessment and feedback, pedagogical methods, clinical reasoning, dealing with ambiguity, dealing with diversity and interprofessional education. This book has been designed to synthesise empirical clinical education research and ideas about the context, value, processes and outcomes of clinical education. Each chapter presents a research based facet of clinical education as a platform from which knowledge and future research in clinical education can occur. The authors entice the reader to reconceptualise facets of their own teaching and learning practices based on research findings, expertise and innovation. Despite claims that clinical education lies at the heart of health care education, little empirical research has explored what constitutes effectiveness in clinical teaching and learning. This book draws on the research, ideas and expertise of researchers who have observed and researched different aspects of clinical education. Their research has spanned clinical education topics including professional identity and socialisation, assessment and feedback, pedagogical methods, clinical reasoning, dealing with ambiguity, dealing with diversity and interprofessional education. This book has been designed to synthesise empirical clinical education research and ideas about the context, value, processes and outcomes of clinical education. Each chapter presents a research based facet of clinical education as a platform from which knowledge and future research in clinical education can occur. The authors entice the reader to reconceptualise facets of their own teaching and learning practices based on research findings, expertise and innovation.

Author Biography

Dr Clare Delany PhD, BAppSci (Phty), M Physio (Manipulative Therapy), M Health Med Law is a Senior Lecturer in ethics, clinical education and qualitative research methods, Melbourne Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, and Clinical Ethics Fellow at the Children's Bioethics Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria. Dr Elizabeth Molloy PhD, BPhysio (Hons) is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Research Methods in the Health Professions and Clinical Supervision at the Centre for medical and Health Sciences Education in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, and is a physiotherapist with the Australian Athletics Team.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Editors	p. viii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Examining knowledge: theoretical perspectives about knowledge construction	p. 1
Critical reflection in clinical education: beyond the 'swampy lowlands'	p. 3
Ways of knowing for clinical practice	p. 25
Recognising and bridging gaps: theory, research and practice in clinical education	p. 38
Sharing knowledge: communities and culture in education	p. 51
Professional identities and communities of practice	p. 53
Interprofessional education: sharing the wealth	p. 70
Clinical education: embracing diversity	p. 92
Applying knowledge: teaching and learning practices	p. 107
Clinical reasoning: the nuts and bolts of clinical education	p. 109
Time to pause: giving and receiving feedback in clinical education	p. 128
Assessment in clinical education	p. 147
Ethics in clinical education	p. 173
Index	p. 187
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