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Media systems for education and training in the allied health sciences

Teoh Soon Teong

Med J Malaysia, 1973 Dec;28(2):65-9.

PMID: 4135195

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education*

Fulltext Capturing the wisdom of the crowd: health professions' educators meet at a virtual world café

McKimm J, Ramani S, Kusurkar RA, Fornari A, Nadarajah VD, Thampy H, et al.

Perspect Med Educ, 2020 12;9(6):385-390.

PMID: 33051804 DOI: 10.1007/s40037-020-00623-y

BACKGROUND: Conversations about educational challenges and potential solutions among a globally and culturally diverse group of health professions' educators can facilitate identity formation, mentoring relationships and professional network building. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more important to co-create and disseminate knowledge, specifically regarding online and flexible learning formats.

APPROACH: Based on the principles of social learning, we combined speed mentoring and world café formats to offer a virtual Zoom™ workshop, with large and small group discussions, to reach health professions' educators across the globe. The goal was to establish a psychologically safe space for dialogue regarding adaptation to online teaching-learning formats.

EVALUATION: We aimed to establish psychological safety to stimulate thought-provoking discussions within the various small groups and obtain valuable contributions from participants. From these conversations, we were able to formulate 'hot tips' on how to adapt to (sometimes new) online teaching-learning formats while nurturing teacher and student wellbeing.

REFLECTION: Through this virtual workshop we realized that despite contextual differences, many challenges are common worldwide. We experienced technological difficulties during the session, which needed rapid adaptation by the organising team. We encouraged, but did not pressure, participants to use video and audio during breakout discussions as we wanted them to feel safe and comfortable. The large audience size and different time zones were challenging; therefore, leadership had to be resilient and focussed. Although this virtual format was triggered by the pandemic, the format can be continued in the future to discuss other relevant global education topics.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education*

Teaching quality assurance in Malaysia: a report on six workshops on quality assurance in patient care services for health care providers in government service

Reerink E, Nafisah bte Alihussein

Med Educ, 1990 Jul;24(4):359-65.

PMID: 2395428 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02452.x

In the government hospitals of Malaysia quality assurance activities have been introduced since 1985. Local clinicians and other health care workers had been stimulated by the Ministry of Health to pursue these activities, but they found themselves untrained and ill-prepared for the job. With the help of the World Health Organization a programme of training courses has been set up and conducted, most recently, in February 1989. A model for teaching quality assurance was developed, geared towards the needs of the Malaysian clinicians and taking into account the recent progress made in the development of quality assurance approaches worldwide. Moreover, quality assurance results from one Malaysian hospital were used, thus increasing the relevance of the teaching. Results show that Malaysian clinicians have appreciated the training and have relaxed in their attitude towards quality assurance and the government's involvement in it. During the various courses pitfalls have been identified in the teaching of modern quality assurance in health care for audiences from developing and newly industrialized countries.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education*

Competency-based training of health professions teachers in seven developing countries

Vanderschmidt L, Massey JA, Arias J, Duong T, Haddad J, Noche LK, et al.

Am J Public Health, 1979 Jun;69(6):585-90.

PMID: 443499

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education*

East Asia review, 1976-7: Malaysia

Aziz NL

Stud Fam Plann, 1978 Sep;9(9):41-2.

PMID: 734714 DOI: 10.2307/1965636

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education

Effectiveness of technology-enhanced learning in Endodontic education: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nagendrababu V, Pulikkotil SJ, Sultan OS, Jayaraman J, Soh JA, Dummer PMH

Int Endod J, 2019 Feb;52(2):181-192.

PMID: 30099740 DOI: 10.1111/iej.12995

The aim of the present systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in the field of Endodontics to improve educational outcomes compared to traditional learning methods. Randomized controlled studies published in English were identified from two electronic databases (PubMed and Scopus) up to May 2018. Two authors independently performed study selection, data extraction and assessed the risk of bias (ROB). Any teaching method using TEL was considered as the intervention, and this was compared to traditional methods. The outcome measuring the effectiveness of learning activities was evaluated by Kirkpatrick's four-level training evaluation model. The four levels of training outcomes are as follows: Reaction, Learning, Behaviour and Results. A meta-analysis was performed to estimate the standardized mean difference (SMD) by the random effects model. In total, 13 studies were included in the systematic review. Only three studies were assessed as 'low' ROB. A meta-analysis could not be performed in the domains of Reaction and Behaviour. No significant difference was observed in knowledge gain (Learning domain) between TEL and traditional methods (SMD, 0.14 (95% CI -0.10 to 0.39) I2 = 62.7%). Similarly, no difference was observed in performance (Behaviour domain). A variable response was found in attitude (Reaction domain). From the available evidence, it can be concluded that TEL is equally as effective as traditional learning methods.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education

Fulltext Quality assurance in education: perception of undergraduate health professions students in a Malaysian university

Er HM, Nadarajah VD, Ng SH, Wong AN

Korean J Med Educ, 2020 Sep;32(3):185-195.

PMID: 32723985 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2020.166

PURPOSE: Direct student involvement in quality processes in education has been suggested to encourage shared responsibilities among faculty and students. The objectives of this study were to explore undergraduate health professions students' understanding of quality assurance (QA) in education, and identify the challenges and enablers for student involvement in an Asian context.

METHODS: Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted among medical, dentistry, and pharmacy students in a Malaysian University. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and thematically analyzed to understand the students' perspectives of QA in education.

RESULTS: The participants recognized the importance of QA towards ensuring the quality of their training, which will consequently impact their work readiness, employability, and quality of healthcare services. Academic governance, curriculum structure, content and delivery, faculty and student quality, teaching facilities, and learning resources were indicated as the QA areas. The challenges for students' involvement included students' attitude, maturity, and cultural barrier. To enhance their buy-in, clear objectives and impact, efficient QA mechanism, and recognition of students' contribution had been suggested.

CONCLUSION: The findings of this study support student-faculty partnership in QA processes and decision making.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education*

Providing maternal and child care in rural Malaysia

Chen PC

Trop Geogr Med, 1977 Dec;29(4):441-8.

PMID: 610030

Since Independence, gained in 1957, major changes have occurred in the rural areas of Malaysia not least amongst which has been the provision of maternal and child care services to hitherto neglected areas. In the first part of this paper, the demographic and disease patterns are described. The second part outlines the general development efforts and describes in greater detail the rural health services that have been organized in Malaysia. In the concluding section, changes in mortality and morbidity are examined.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education

Family planning programs: world review 1974. East Asia. Malaysia

Stud Fam Plann, 1975 Aug;6(8):221-47.

PMID: 1202673 DOI: 10.2307/1964956

Matched MeSH terms: Health Occupations/education

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