Original Research

Students’ perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospital-based training

Shehla Jabbar Memon, Jakobus Murray Louw, Martin Bac, Jannie Hugo, Waqar-un Nisa Rauf, John Edward Sandars
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 8, No 1 | a1028 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1028 | © 2016 Shehla Jabbar Memon, Jakobus Murray Louw, Martin Bac, Jannie Hugo, Waqar-un Nisa Rauf, John Edward Sandars | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 07 September 2015 | Published: 07 July 2016

About the author(s)

Shehla Jabbar Memon, Family Physician, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jakobus Murray Louw, Family Physician, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Martin Bac, Family Physician Department of Family Medicine University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jannie Hugo, Family Physician, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Waqar-un Nisa Rauf, Family Physician, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
John Edward Sandars, Medical School, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Abstract

Background: An innovative, three-year training programme, the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP), for mid-level medical healthcare workers was started in 2009 by the Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria.

Aim: To measure the students’ perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospitalbased training. Setting: Training of students took place at clinical learning centres in rural district hospitals in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces.

Methods: A survey using the MedEd IQ questionnaire was performed in 2010 and 2011 to measure BCMP second- and third-year students’ perceptions of instructional quality of district hospital-based training. The MedEd IQ questionnaire is composed of four subscales: preceptor activities, learning opportunities, learner involvement and the learning environment. Composite scores of instructional quality were used to present results.

Results: The preceptor activities, learning opportunities and the learning environment were considered by second- and third-year BCMP students to be of consistently high instructional quality. In the area of learner involvement, instructional quality increased significantly from second to third year.

Conclusion: Overall, instructional quality of district hospital-based training was high for both second- and third-year BCMP students, and the instructional quality of learner involvement being significantly higher in third year students. The MedEd IQ tool was a useful tool for measuring instructional quality and to inform programme quality improvement.

Keywords: clinical associates, evaluation of medical education, mid-level healthcare workers, rural learning centres, rural medical education, student satisfaction.


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